Which number counts? Hyperbole and real numbers in maths, sentence 4
A fake number is round and huge and comes inside a moan or a boast: «a million miles», «a thousand sweets», «a hundred things to do».
Who acts: fake number, hundred things · What happens: be, come, do · To what, where: moan
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 (fake number, hundred things), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 number | det |
| 2 | fake | fake | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 number | amod |
| 3 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 round | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 round | cop |
| 5 | round | round | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 huge | cc |
| 7 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 round | conj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 comes | cc |
| 9 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 round | conj |
| 10 | inside | inside | ADP | _ | 12 moan | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 moan | det |
| 12 | moan | moan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 comes | obl |
| 13 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 15 boast | cc |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 boast | det |
| 15 | boast | boast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 moan | conj |
| 16 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 17 « | punct |
| 17 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 20 miles | punct |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 million | det |
| 19 | million | million | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 miles | nummod |
| 20 | miles | mile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 comes | dep |
| 21 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 20 miles | punct |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 « | punct |
| 23 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 26 sweets | punct |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 thousand | det |
| 25 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 26 sweets | nummod |
| 26 | sweets | sweet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 miles | conj |
| 27 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 26 sweets | punct |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 do | punct |
| 29 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 32 things | punct |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 hundred | det |
| 31 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 32 things | nummod |
| 32 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 do | nsubj |
| 33 | to | to | PART | _ | 34 do | mark |
| 34 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 round | conj |
| 35 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 34 do | punct |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 round | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | a fake number | round property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | a fake number not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | come | present | a fake number not said here | a moan or a boast | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme inside moan=Location | ||||
| 4 | do in a quote | to-infinitive | hundred things | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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:4.
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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×3, 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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