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title: Word problems and real life are full of numbers, but not every numbe… — Which number counts? Hyperbole and real numbers… · tree and pragmatics
description: Word problems and real life are full of numbers, but not every number is there to be counted. Who acts: Word problems, number. A sentence of the lesson «Which number counts? Hyperbole and real numbers in maths» of the language course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# Which number counts? Hyperbole and real numbers in maths, sentence 0

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Word problems and real life are full of numbers, but not every number is there to be counted.

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**Who acts:** Word problems, number · **What happens:** be, not be, count

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Which number counts? Hyperbole and real numbers in maths» of the language 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 (Word problems, number), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:language:046-which-number-counts-hyperbole-and-real-numbers-in-maths.lesson:0
# text = Word problems and real life are full of numbers, but not every number is there to be counted.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = language
# lesson = 046-which-number-counts-hyperbole-and-real-numbers-in-maths.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): no change
1	Word	Word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	problems	problem	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
6	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	numbers	number	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
12	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
13	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	14	det	_	_
14	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
16	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	15	expl	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
18	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	counted	count	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	xcomp	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **is** | present | Word problems and real life |  |  |  |  | of numbers; full *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **be** | present | every number |  |  | there |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **count** | to-infinitive · passive | every number *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn matter-91 «NP V» |

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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:language:046-which-number-counts-hyperbole-and-real-numbers-in-maths.lesson:0`.

**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): no change. **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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