Olympiad: everyday reasoning ★★★, sentence 7
"The queue was a mile long" and "I'm starving" are hyperbole, not numbers; "it's just a scratch" may hide a real injury, and then the wise move is to check and tell an adult.
Who acts: queue, Real talk, mile, wise move, adult · What happens: be, starve, hide, tell · To what, where: mile, hyperbole, scratch, real injury · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: everyday reasoning ★★★» of the world 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 (queue, Real talk, mile, wise move), 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 | _ | 6 mile | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 queue | det |
| 3 | queue | queue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 mile | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 mile | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 mile | det |
| 6 | mile | mile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 hyperbole | nsubj |
| 7 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 mile | advmod |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 long | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 starving | cc |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 starving | punct |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 starving | nsubj |
| 12 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 starving | aux |
| 13 | starving | starve | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 mile | conj |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 starving | punct |
| 15 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 hyperbole | cop |
| 16 | hyperbole | hyperbole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 hide | parataxis |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 numbers | punct |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 numbers | advmod |
| 19 | numbers | number | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 hyperbole | conj |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 scratch | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 scratch | punct |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 scratch | nsubj |
| 23 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 scratch | cop |
| 24 | just | just | ADV | _ | 26 scratch | advmod |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 scratch | det |
| 26 | scratch | scratch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 hide | csubj |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 scratch | punct |
| 28 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 hide | aux |
| 29 | hide | hide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 injury | det |
| 31 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 injury | amod |
| 32 | injury | injury | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 hide | obj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 check | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 check | cc |
| 35 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 38 move | advmod |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 move | det |
| 37 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 move | amod |
| 38 | move | move | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 check | nsubj |
| 39 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 41 check | cop |
| 40 | to | to | PART | _ | 41 check | mark |
| 41 | check | check | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 hide | conj |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 tell | cc |
| 43 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 41 check | conj |
| 44 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 45 adult | det |
| 45 | adult | adult | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 tell | obj |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 hyperbole | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | past | the queue | a mile | long property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | starve in a quote | present · progressive | Real talk = talk | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | is a | present | a mile | hyperbole and numbers | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is a in a quote | present | mile | a scratch | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | hide | may | a real injury | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent injury=Patient | |||||
| 6 | is | present | the wise move | check property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | tell speech: assert | infinitive | a adult | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «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:world:194-olympiad-everyday-reasoning.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): R1-cc-next ×3, R6-punct-agree ×3, 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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