--- title: When you need a real number, count or check: fifteen sums at about t… — Starving, a million times and a ton: everyday hy… · tree and pragmatics description: When you need a real number, count or check: fifteen sums at about two minutes each take about half an hour, and a nan's «gazillion texts» can be counted on the phone. Who acts: you, fifteen sums. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, fifteen sums), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:language:044-starving-a-million-times-and-a-ton-everyday-hyperbole.lesson:17 # text = When you need a real number, count or check: fifteen sums at about two minutes each take about half an hour, and a nan's «gazillion texts» can be counted on the phone. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = language # lesson = 044-starving-a-million-times-and-a-ton-everyday-hyperbole.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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 3 advmod _ _ 2 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 need need VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 number number NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 8 count count NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 appos _ _ 9 or or CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 check check VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=8:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 11 : : PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ _ 12 fifteen fifteen NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 13 nummod _ _ 13 sums sum NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nsubj _ _ 14 at at ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 15 about about ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 16 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 17 nummod _ _ 17 minutes minute NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nmod _ _ 18 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 17 det _ _ 19 take take VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 20 about about ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 21 half half DET PDT NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind 23 det:predet _ _ 22 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 hour hour NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:obl:unmarked 24 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 nan nan NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nmod:poss _ _ 28 's 's PART POS _ 27 case _ _ 29 « « PUNCT `` _ 31 punct _ _ 30 gazillion gazillion NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 compound _ _ 31 texts text NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 nsubj:pass _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:obj 32 » » PUNCT '' _ 31 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=35:punct 33 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ _ 34 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 35 aux:pass _ _ 35 counted count VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 19 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=31:acl:relcl 36 on on ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 phone phone NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **need** | present | you | a real number | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot number=Theme | | 2 | **check** | infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **take** | present | fifteen sums at each two minutes | | | | hour | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **count** | can · passive | | a nan's gazillion texts | | the phone | | | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | 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](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:language:044-starving-a-million-times-and-a-ton-everyday-hyperbole.lesson:17`. **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, 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. 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