Which number counts? Hyperbole and real numbers in maths, sentence 9

«Sara walked a million miles round the shops» means she walked a long way and is tired; her 2 bags × 5 apples = 10 apples.

Who acts: Sara · What happens: walk, mean, be · To what, where: million miles, shops, long way · 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 (Sara), 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	Sara	Sara	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 walked	nsubj
3	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 means	ccomp
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 miles	det
5	million	million	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 miles	nummod
6	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 walked	obj
7	round	round	ADP	_	9 shops	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 shops	det
9	shops	shop	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 walked	obl
10	»	»	PUNCT	_	3 walked	punct
11	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 walked	nsubj
13	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 means	ccomp
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 way	det
15	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 way	amod
16	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 walked	obj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 tired	cc
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 tired	cop
19	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 walked	conj
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 bags	punct
21	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 bags	nmod:poss
22	2	2	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	23 bags	nummod
23	bags	bag	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 shops	conj
24	×	×	SYM	_	25 5	advmod
25	5	5	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	26 apples	nummod
26	apples	apple	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 shops	conj
27	=	=	SYM	_	29 apples	punct
28	10	10	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	29 apples	nummod
29	apples	apple	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 apples	conj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 means	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed polarity=none

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	walk in a quote	past	Sara	a million miles	the shops and Sara's 2 bags and 5 apples and 10 apples		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent mile=Theme round shop=Trajectory
2	mean	present					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	walk	past	Sara	a long way			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme way=Trajectory
4	is	present	Sara not said here			tired property	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:9.

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): 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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