Olympiad: check the claim and spot the trick ★★★, sentence 4
Real people pile on hyperbole and play things down: "a million people at the rally" in a square that holds 5,000 is an exaggeration to spot, and "not sure yet" is always an honest answer.
Who acts: Real people, square · What happens: pile, play down, hold, be, spot · To what, where: hyperbole, things, 5,000, exaggeration, honest answer
This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: check the claim and spot the trick ★★★» of the politics 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 (Real people, square), 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 | Real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 people | amod |
| 2 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 pile | nsubj |
| 3 | pile | pile | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 play | conj |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 hyperbole | case |
| 5 | hyperbole | hyperbole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 pile | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 play | cc |
| 7 | play | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 play | obj |
| 9 | down | down | ADP | _ | 7 play | compound:prt |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 people | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 people | punct |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 million | det |
| 13 | million | million | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 people | nummod |
| 14 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 play | conj |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 rally | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 rally | det |
| 17 | rally | rally | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 people | nmod |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 people | punct |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 square | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 square | det |
| 21 | square | square | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 people | nmod |
| 22 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 holds | nsubj |
| 23 | holds | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 square | acl:relcl |
| 24 | 5,000 | 5000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 23 holds | obj |
| 25 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 exaggeration | cop |
| 26 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 exaggeration | det |
| 27 | exaggeration | exaggeration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 people | conj |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 spot | mark |
| 29 | spot | spot | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 exaggeration | acl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 sure | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 sure | cc |
| 32 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 34 sure | punct |
| 33 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 34 sure | advmod |
| 34 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 play | conj |
| 35 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 34 sure | advmod |
| 36 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 34 sure | punct |
| 37 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 41 answer | cop |
| 38 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 41 answer | advmod |
| 39 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 41 answer | det |
| 40 | honest | honest | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 answer | amod |
| 41 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 sure | conj |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 pile | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pile | present | Real people | hyperbole | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on hyperbole=Destination | ||||
| 2 | play down | present | things | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme | |||||
| 3 | hold | present | a square | 5,000 | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 5000=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is a | present | a exaggeration | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | spot | to-infinitive | vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme» | ||||||
| 6 | is a | present | a honest answer | always 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:politics:042-olympiad-check-the-claim-and-spot-the-trick.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 ×1, R6-punct-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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