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title: Hyperbole like "a billion mistakes" means "many", and understatement… — Olympiad: claims, clues and tricky messages ★★★ · tree and pragmatics
description: Hyperbole like "a billion mistakes" means "many", and understatement like "a slight problem" can hide a serious one. Who acts: Hyperbole. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: claims, clues and tricky messages ★★★» of the ai course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o
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# Olympiad: claims, clues and tricky messages ★★★, sentence 14

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Hyperbole like "a billion mistakes" means "many", and understatement like "a slight problem" can hide a serious one.

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**Who acts:** Hyperbole · **What happens:** mean, hide · **To what, where:** many, serious one

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: claims, clues and tricky messages ★★★» of the ai 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 (Hyperbole), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:ai:032-olympiad-claims-clues-and-tricky-messages.lesson:14
# text = Hyperbole like "a billion mistakes" means "many", and understatement like "a slight problem" can hide a serious one.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = ai
# lesson = 032-olympiad-claims-clues-and-tricky-messages.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): R5-strong ×1
1	Hyperbole	hyperbole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
2	like	like	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
3	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	billion	billion	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	mistakes	mistake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
8	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	_
10	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	obj	_	_
11	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	understatement	understatement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
15	like	like	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
16	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	slight	slight	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	problem	problem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
20	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	_
21	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	hide	hide	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:acl
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	serious	serious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: pos
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | Hyperbole like a billion mistakes | many |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent many=Topic |
| 2 | **hide** | can | Hyperbole like a billion mistakes *not said here* | a serious one |  |  |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient |

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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:ai:032-olympiad-claims-clues-and-tricky-messages.lesson:14`.

**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. **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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