--- title: When someone corrects themselves, the last real number counts: «like… — Which number counts? Hyperbole and real numbers… · tree and pragmatics description: When someone corrects themselves, the last real number counts: «like a million people, well, thirty» means 30. Who acts: someone, last real number, million people. A sentence of the lesson «Which number counts? Hyperbole and real numbers in maths» of the language course of Mova's primary school with --- [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/17/) [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/) / 17 # Which number counts? Hyperbole and real numbers in maths, sentence 17 When someone corrects themselves, the last real number counts: «like a million people, well, thirty» means 30. **Who acts:** someone, last real number, million people · **What happens:** correct, count, mean · **To what, where:** miles, 30 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 (someone, last real number, million people), 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:17 # text = When someone corrects themselves, the last real number counts: «like a million people, well, thirty» means 30. # 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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 When when SCONJ WRB _ 3 mark _ _ 2 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 3 nsubj _ _ 3 corrects correct VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 advcl _ _ 4 themselves themselves PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 3 obj _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:det 7 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:amod 8 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:amod 9 number number NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 10 counts count VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 : : PUNCT : _ 10 punct _ _ 12 « « PUNCT `` _ 22 punct _ _ 13 like like ADP IN _ 16 discourse _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:case 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 million million NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 16 nummod _ _ 16 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nsubj _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 18 well well INTJ UH _ 22 discourse _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 20 thirty thirty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 16 appos _ _ 21 » » PUNCT '' _ 16 punct _ _ 22 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 parataxis _ _ 23 30 30 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 22 obj _ _ 24 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **correct** *speech: disagree* | present | someone | miles *= mile* | | | | | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient | | 2 | **count** | present | the last real number | | | | | | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | | 3 | **mean** | present | million people | 30 | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 30=Topic | 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. 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