Which number counts? Hyperbole and real numbers in maths, sentence 17

When someone corrects themselves, the last real number counts: «like a million people, well, thirty» means 30.

Who acts: someone, last real number, million people · What happens: correct, count, mean · To what, where: miles, 30

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 (someone, last real number, million people), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	3 corrects	mark
2	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	3 corrects	nsubj
3	corrects	correct	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 counts	advcl
4	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 corrects	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 counts	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 number	det
7	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 number	amod
8	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 number	amod
9	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 counts	nsubj
10	counts	count	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 counts	punct
12	«	«	PUNCT	_	22 means	punct
13	like	like	ADP	_	16 people	discourse
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 million	det
15	million	million	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 people	nummod
16	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 means	nsubj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 means	punct
18	well	well	INTJ	_	22 means	discourse
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 well	punct
20	thirty	thirty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 people	appos
21	»	»	PUNCT	_	16 people	punct
22	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 counts	parataxis
23	30	30	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	22 means	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 counts	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	correct speech: disagree	present	someone	miles = mile	vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient
2	count	present	the last real number		vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus
3	mean	present	million people	30	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 30=Topic

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:17.

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 ×3, R7-rel-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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