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title: A hyperbole number such as "a million times" or "forever" is never t… — Olympiad: reading between the lines ★★★ · tree and pragmatics
description: A hyperbole number such as "a million times" or "forever" is never the number to count; the real number in the text is. Who acts: hyperbole number. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: reading between the lines ★★★» of the euphemisms course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pr
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# Olympiad: reading between the lines ★★★, sentence 24

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A hyperbole number such as "a million times" or "forever" is never the number to count; the real number in the text is.

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**Who acts:** hyperbole number · **What happens:** not be, count, be · **To what, where:** number

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: reading between the lines ★★★» of the euphemisms 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 number), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:euphemisms:042-olympiad-reading-between-the-lines.lesson:24
# text = A hyperbole number such as "a million times" or "forever" is never the number to count; the real number in the text is.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = euphemisms
# lesson = 042-olympiad-reading-between-the-lines.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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	hyperbole	hyperbole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
3	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
4	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	9	case	_	_
5	as	as	ADP	IN	_	4	fixed	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	million	million	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
10	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
12	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=18:punct
13	forever	forever	ADV	RB	_	9	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:advmod
14	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
16	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	count	count	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	acl	_	_
21	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:conj
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	text	text	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
28	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	28	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is a** | present | a hyperbole number such million times or the number *not said here* | the number |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **count** | to-infinitive | a hyperbole number such million times or the number *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **be** | present | a hyperbole number such million times or the number |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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:euphemisms:042-olympiad-reading-between-the-lines.lesson:24`.

**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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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.

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

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