Which number counts? Hyperbole and real numbers in maths, sentence 1
«Tom has told his brother a hundred times to tidy up.
Who acts: Tom · What happens: tell, tidy up · To what, where: brother · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Which number counts? Hyperbole and real numbers in maths» of the language course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tom), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 4 told | punct |
| 2 | Tom | Tom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 told | nsubj |
| 3 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 told | aux |
| 4 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 brother | nmod:poss |
| 6 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 told | iobj |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 hundred | det |
| 8 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 times | nummod |
| 9 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 told | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 tidy | mark |
| 11 | tidy | tidy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 told | xcomp |
| 12 | up | up | ADP | _ | 11 tidy | compound:prt |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 told | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert in a quote | present · perfect | Tom | Tom's brother | time | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent brother=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | tidy up not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | Tom not said here | tree rules |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:language:046-which-number-counts-hyperbole-and-real-numbers-in-maths.lesson:1.
The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R8-pos-agree ×1. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.
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