--- title: What you can count beats what someone says: if Ben says «I've got li… — Which number counts? Hyperbole and real numbers… · tree and pragmatics description: What you can count beats what someone says: if Ben says «I've got like a thousand sweets» and empties 14 onto the table, sharing with Ama gives 7 each. Who acts: you, someone, Ben, I. A sentence of the lesson «Which number counts? Hyperbole and real numbers in maths» of the language course of Mova's --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/46-which-number-counts-hyperbole-and-real-numbers-in-maths/10/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Language](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/) / [Which number counts? 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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, someone, Ben, I), 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:10 # text = What you can count beats what someone says: if Ben says «I've got like a thousand sweets» and empties 14 onto the table, sharing with Ama gives 7 each. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 4 obj _ _ 2 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 3 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 count count VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 csubj _ _ 5 beats beat VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 8 obj _ _ 7 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 8 nsubj _ _ 8 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 acl:relcl _ _ 9 : : PUNCT : _ 12 punct _ _ 10 if if SCONJ IN _ 12 mark _ _ 11 Ben Ben PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 12 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 13 « « SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 14 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 15 've have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 16 got get VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 12 ccomp _ _ 17 like like ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 thousand thousand NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 20 nummod _ _ 20 sweets sweet NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obl _ _ 21 » » PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 empties empty VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=20:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 24 14 14 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 23 flat _ _ 25 onto onto ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 table table NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:nmod 28 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=29:punct 29 sharing share VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 32 csubj _ _ 30 with with ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 Ama ama PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 obl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=29:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 32 gives give VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 33 7 7 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 32 obj _ _ 34 each each ADV RB PronType=Tot 33 advmod _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed voice=narrator | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **count** | can | you | | | | | | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme | | 2 | **beat** | present | | | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | someone | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* *a condition, not said to happen* | present | Ben | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **get** *in a quote* | present · perfect | Ben | | | | | like a thousand sweets | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 6 | **empty** | present | I *not said here* | | | the table | | | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP.Source V»: agent=Source | | 7 | **share** | gerund | | | | | | with Ama | tree rules | | 8 | **give** | present | sharing | 7 | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 7=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:046-which-number-counts-hyperbole-and-real-numbers-in-maths.lesson:10`. **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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. **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/). - ← previous: [Which number counts? Hyperbole and rea…, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/46-which-number-counts-hyperbole-and-real-numbers-in-maths/9/) - next →: [Which number counts? 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