Which number counts? Hyperbole and real numbers in maths, sentence 18

Exact numbers with units from a teacher or a book (Everest is 8,849 metres high) are real; round huge numbers in a moan («that hill's a thousand miles high») are not.

Who acts: Everest, Exact numbers, hill · What happens: be, not be · 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 (Everest, Exact numbers, hill), 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	Exact	exact	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 numbers	amod
2	numbers	number	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 real	nsubj
3	with	with	ADP	_	4 units	case
4	units	unit	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 numbers	nmod
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 teacher	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 teacher	det
7	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 units	nmod
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 book	cc
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 book	det
10	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 teacher	conj
11	(	(	PUNCT	_	16 high	punct
12	Everest	Everest	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 high	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 high	cop
14	8,849	8,849	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	15 metres	nummod
15	metres	metre	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 high	obl
16	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 real	parataxis
17	)	)	PUNCT	_	16 high	punct
18	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 real	cop
19	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 numbers	punct
21	round	round	ADV	_	22 huge	advmod
22	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 numbers	amod
23	numbers	number	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 real	conj
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 moan	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 moan	det
26	moan	moan	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 numbers	nmod
27	(	(	PUNCT	_	35 high	punct
28	«	«	PUNCT	_	35 high	punct
29	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	30 hill	det
30	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 high	nsubj
31	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 high	cop
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 miles	det
33	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	34 miles	nummod
34	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 high	obl
35	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 real	parataxis
36	»	»	PUNCT	_	35 high	punct
37	)	)	PUNCT	_	35 high	punct
38	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 real	conj
39	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	38 are	advmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 real	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	present	Everest	8,849 metres obl; high property	tree rules
2	is	present	Exact numbers with units from a teacher or a book	real property	tree rules
3	is in a quote	present	that hill	a thousand miles obl; high property	tree rules
4	not be	present	Exact numbers with units from a teacher or a book not said here		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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:18.

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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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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