Which number counts? Hyperbole and real numbers in maths, sentence 8
In a word problem, use only the numbers that are about the thing asked; «told his brother a hundred times» is decoration, and 3 shelves × 4 books = 12 books.
Who acts: you, numbers, 3 shelves · What happens: use, be, tell, book · To what, where: numbers, word problem, brother, decoration · 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, numbers, 3 shelves), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 problem | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 problem | det |
| 3 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 problem | compound |
| 4 | problem | problem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 use | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 problem | punct |
| 6 | use | use | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | only | only | ADV | _ | 9 numbers | advmod |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 numbers | det |
| 9 | numbers | number | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 use | obj |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 asked | nsubj |
| 11 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 asked | cop |
| 12 | about | about | ADP | _ | 14 thing | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 thing | det |
| 14 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 asked | obl |
| 15 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 numbers | acl:relcl |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 6 use | punct |
| 17 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 18 told | punct |
| 18 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 decoration | csubj |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 brother | nmod:poss |
| 20 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 told | iobj |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 times | det |
| 22 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 times | nummod |
| 23 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 told | obl:unmarked |
| 24 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 18 told | punct |
| 25 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 decoration | cop |
| 26 | decoration | decoration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 use | parataxis |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 books | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 books | cc |
| 29 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 30 shelves | nummod |
| 30 | shelves | shelf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 books | nsubj |
| 31 | × | × | SYM | _ | 33 books | advmod |
| 32 | 4 | 4 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 33 books | nummod |
| 33 | books | book | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 shelves | conj |
| 34 | = | = | SYM | _ | 35 12 | punct |
| 35 | 12 | 12 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 36 books | nummod |
| 36 | books | book | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 decoration | conj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 use | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | imperative | you not said here | the numbers | a word problem | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Patient | |||
| 2 | is | present | the numbers | about the thing; ask property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert in a quote | past | question's brother | time | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent brother=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | is a | present | decoration and 12 books | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | book | 3 shelves and 4 books | tree rules |
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:8.
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. 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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