--- title: «We walked for miles and miles» is a feeling; «We walked about three… — Which number counts? Hyperbole and real numbers… · tree and pragmatics description: «We walked for miles and miles» is a feeling; «We walked about three kilometres» is a measurement, and in a maths answer you use the measurement. Who acts: We, you. A sentence of the lesson «Which number counts? Hyperbole and real numbers in maths» of the language course of Mova's primary school wit --- [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/16/) [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? Hyperbole and rea…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/46-which-number-counts-hyperbole-and-real-numbers-in-maths/) / 16 # Which number counts? Hyperbole and real numbers in maths, sentence 16 «We walked for miles and miles» is a feeling; «We walked about three kilometres» is a measurement, and in a maths answer you use the measurement. **Who acts:** We, you · **What happens:** walk, be, use · **To what, where:** feeling, three kilometres, measurement, maths answer · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (We, you), 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:16 # text = «We walked for miles and miles» is a feeling; «We walked about three kilometres» is a measurement, and in a maths answer you use the measurement. # 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 « « PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ _ 2 We we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 walked walk VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 csubj _ _ 4 for for ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 miles mile NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 miles mile NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 conj _ _ 8 » » PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ 9 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 feeling feeling NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 12 ; ; PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 13 « « PUNCT `` _ 15 punct _ _ 14 We we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 walked walk VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 csubj _ _ 16 about about ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 17 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 18 nummod _ _ 18 kilometres kilometre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obl:unmarked _ _ 19 » » PUNCT '' _ 15 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=11:punct 20 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 measurement measurement NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 conj _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=22:cc 25 in in ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 27 maths math NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 compound _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=28:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 28 answer answer NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 29 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 30 use use VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 conj _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 measurement measurement NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=22:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **walk** *in a quote* | past | We | | | | | for miles and miles | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **is a** | present | | a feeling and a measurement | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **walk** *in a quote* | past | We | three kilometres | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **is a** | present | | a measurement | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **use** | present | you | the measurement | | a maths answer | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent measurement=Patient | 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:16`. **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): R1-cc-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Which number counts? Hyperbole and rea…, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/46-which-number-counts-hyperbole-and-real-numbers-in-maths/10/) - next →: [Which number counts? 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