Which number counts? Hyperbole and real numbers in maths, sentence 16

«We walked for miles and miles» is a feeling; «We walked about three kilometres» is a measurement, and in a maths answer you use the measurement.

Who acts: We, you · What happens: walk, be, use · To what, where: feeling, three kilometres, measurement, maths answer · 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 (We, you), 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	_	3 walked	punct
2	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 walked	nsubj
3	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 feeling	csubj
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 miles	case
5	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 walked	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 miles	cc
7	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 miles	conj
8	»	»	PUNCT	_	3 walked	punct
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 feeling	cop
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 feeling	det
11	feeling	feeling	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 walked	punct
13	«	«	PUNCT	_	15 walked	punct
14	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 walked	nsubj
15	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 measurement	csubj
16	about	about	ADV	_	17 three	advmod
17	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 kilometres	nummod
18	kilometres	kilometre	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 walked	obl:unmarked
19	»	»	PUNCT	_	15 walked	punct
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 measurement	cop
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 measurement	det
22	measurement	measurement	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 feeling	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 use	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 use	cc
25	in	in	ADP	_	28 answer	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 answer	det
27	maths	math	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 answer	compound
28	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 use	obl
29	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	30 use	nsubj
30	use	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 measurement	conj
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 measurement	det
32	measurement	measurement	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 use	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 feeling	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	walk in a quote	past	We			for miles and miles	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	present		a feeling and a measurement			tree rules
3	walk in a quote	past	We	three kilometres			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is a	present		a measurement			tree rules
5	use	present	you	the measurement	a maths answer		vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent measurement=Patient

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:16.

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): R1-cc-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, 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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