★★★ Olympiad: hyperbole and downplaying puzzles, sentence 7
In one sentence one number can be real and another fake: «Gran has told me a thousand times she was born in 1950» gives a real year (1950) and a hyperbolic count (a thousand), so in 2000 she was 50.
Who acts: one number, Gran · What happens: be, tell, bear, give · To what, where: one sentence, Gran, 1950, 50, 2000 · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «★★★ Olympiad: hyperbole and downplaying puzzles» 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 (one number, Gran), 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 | _ | 3 sentence | case |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 sentence | nummod |
| 3 | sentence | sentence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 real | obl |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 number | nummod |
| 5 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 real | nsubj |
| 6 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 real | aux |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 real | cop |
| 8 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 fake | cc |
| 10 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 fake | det |
| 11 | fake | fake | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 real | conj |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 real | punct |
| 13 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 16 told | punct |
| 14 | Gran | Gran | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 told | nsubj |
| 15 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 told | aux |
| 16 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 real | parataxis |
| 17 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 told | iobj |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 thousand | det |
| 19 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 times | nummod |
| 20 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 told | obl:unmarked |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 born | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 born | aux:pass |
| 23 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 told | ccomp |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 1950 | case |
| 25 | 1950 | 1950 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 23 born | obl |
| 26 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 16 told | punct |
| 27 | gives | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 real | parataxis |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 year | det |
| 29 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 year | amod |
| 30 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 gives | obj |
| 31 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 32 1950 | punct |
| 32 | 1950 | 1950 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 30 year | appos |
| 33 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 32 1950 | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 count | cc |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 count | det |
| 36 | hyperbolic | hyperbolic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 count | amod |
| 37 | count | count | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 year | conj |
| 38 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 40 thousand | punct |
| 39 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 thousand | det |
| 40 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 37 count | appos |
| 41 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 40 thousand | punct |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 2000 | punct |
| 43 | so | so | ADV | _ | 48 50 | advmod |
| 44 | in | in | ADP | _ | 45 2000 | case |
| 45 | 2000 | 2000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 48 50 | obl |
| 46 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 48 50 | nsubj |
| 47 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 48 50 | cop |
| 48 | 50 | 50 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 real | parataxis |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 real | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | can | one number | one sentence | real property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | be | one number not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert in a quote | present · perfect | Gran | Gran | time | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 4 | bear in a quote | past · passive | Gran | 1950 | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 5 | give | present | year | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 6 | is a | past | Gran | 50 | 2000 | 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:055-olympiad-hyperbole-and-downplaying-puzzles.lesson:7.
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 ×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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