Which number counts? Hyperbole and real numbers in maths, sentence 10
What you can count beats what someone says: if Ben says «I've got like a thousand sweets» and empties 14 onto the table, sharing with Ama gives 7 each.
Who acts: you, someone, Ben, I, sharing · What happens: count, beat, say, get, empty, share · To what, where: table, 7 · 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 (you, someone, Ben, I), 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 count | obj |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 count | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 count | aux |
| 4 | count | count | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 beats | csubj |
| 5 | beats | beat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 8 says | obj |
| 7 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 8 says | nsubj |
| 8 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 beats | acl:relcl |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 says | punct |
| 10 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 12 says | mark |
| 11 | Ben | Ben | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 says | nsubj |
| 12 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 beats | conj |
| 13 | « | « | SCONJ | _ | 16 got | mark |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 got | nsubj |
| 15 | 've | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 got | aux |
| 16 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 says | ccomp |
| 17 | like | like | ADP | _ | 20 sweets | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 sweets | det |
| 19 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 sweets | nummod |
| 20 | sweets | sweet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 got | obl |
| 21 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 23 empties | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 empties | cc |
| 23 | empties | empty | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 sweets | conj |
| 24 | 14 | 14 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 23 empties | flat |
| 25 | onto | onto | ADP | _ | 27 table | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 table | det |
| 27 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 empties | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 gives | punct |
| 29 | sharing | share | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 32 gives | csubj |
| 30 | with | with | ADP | _ | 31 Ama | case |
| 31 | Ama | ama | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 sharing | obl |
| 32 | gives | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 beats | parataxis |
| 33 | 7 | 7 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 32 gives | obj |
| 34 | each | each | ADV | PronType=Tot | 33 7 | advmod |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 beats | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed voice=narrator
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | count | can | you | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme | |||||
| 2 | beat | present | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | present | someone | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert a condition, not said to happen | present | Ben | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | get in a quote | present · perfect | Ben | like a thousand sweets | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 6 | empty | present | I not said here | the table | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP.Source V»: agent=Source | ||||
| 7 | share | gerund | with Ama | tree rules | |||||
| 8 | give | present | sharing | 7 | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 7=Theme |
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:10.
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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. 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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