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title: «I've told you a million times» is not a number to count, and «that'… — Olympiad: what is really going on ★★★ · tree and pragmatics
description: «I've told you a million times» is not a number to count, and «that's not ideal» after the boiler breaks in January can mean a real headache. Who acts: Grown ups, I, that, boiler. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: what is really going on ★★★» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school with 
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# Olympiad: what is really going on ★★★, sentence 2

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«I've told you a million times» is not a number to count, and «that's not ideal» after the boiler breaks in January can mean a real headache.

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**Who acts:** Grown ups, I, that, boiler · **What happens:** tell, not be, count, break, mean · **To what, where:** you, number, real headache · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: what is really going on ★★★» of the adult life 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 (Grown ups, I, that, boiler), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:adult-life:061-olympiad-what-is-really-going-on.lesson:2
# text = «I've told you a million times» is not a number to count, and «that's not ideal» after the boiler breaks in January can mean a real headache.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = adult-life
# lesson = 061-olympiad-what-is-really-going-on.lesson
# annotation = 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, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	've	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	iobj	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	million	million	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
9	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=13:punct
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	ccomp	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	count	count	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	acl	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
18	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	_
19	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	22	nsubj	_	_
20	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
21	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	22	advmod	_	_
22	ideal	ideal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	advcl	_	_
23	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	22	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=22:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_
24	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	boiler	boiler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
27	breaks	break	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	advcl	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	January	January	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
30	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	mean	mean	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	headache	headache	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present · perfect | Grown ups *= up* |  | you |  | time |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient |
| 2 | **not** **is a** | present |  | a number |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **count** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |
| 4 | **not** **is** *in a quote* | present | that |  |  |  |  | ideal *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **break** | present | the boiler |  |  |  | january |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 6 | **mean** | can | I *not said here* | a real headache |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent headache=Topic |

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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.

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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:adult-life:061-olympiad-what-is-really-going-on.lesson:2`.

**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, 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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