--- title: Exact numbers with units from a teacher or a book (Everest is 8,849… — Which number counts? Hyperbole and real numbers… · tree and pragmatics description: Exact numbers with units from a teacher or a book (Everest is 8,849 metres high) are real; round huge numbers in a moan («that hill's a thousand miles high») are not. Who acts: Everest, Exact numbers, hill. A sentence of the lesson «Which number counts? Hyperbole and real numbers in maths» of the la --- [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/18/) [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/) / 18 # Which number counts? Hyperbole and real numbers in maths, sentence 18 Exact numbers with units from a teacher or a book (Everest is 8,849 metres high) are real; round huge numbers in a moan («that hill's a thousand miles high») are not. **Who acts:** Everest, Exact numbers, hill · **What happens:** be, not be · **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 (Everest, Exact numbers, hill), 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:18 # text = Exact numbers with units from a teacher or a book (Everest is 8,849 metres high) are real; round huge numbers in a moan («that hill's a thousand miles high») are not. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Exact exact ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 numbers number NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nsubj _ _ 3 with with ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 units unit NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nmod _ _ 5 from from ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 teacher teacher NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 8 or or CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 book book NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 conj _ _ 11 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 16 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=12:punct 12 Everest Everest PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=16:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 13 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ _ 14 8,849 8,849 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 15 nummod _ _ 15 metres metre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:nmod:unmarked 16 high high ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 parataxis _ _ 17 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 16 punct _ _ 18 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 cop _ _ 19 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 21 round round ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 22 huge huge ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 numbers number NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 conj _ _ 24 in in ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 moan moan NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod _ _ 27 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 35 punct _ _ 28 « « PUNCT `` _ 35 punct _ _ 29 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 30 det _ _ 30 hill hill NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nsubj _ _ 31 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 cop _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 33 thousand thousand NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 34 nummod _ _ 34 miles mile NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=35:nmod:unmarked 35 high high ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 parataxis _ _ 36 » » PUNCT '' _ 35 punct _ _ 37 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 35 punct _ _ 38 are be VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ _ 39 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 38 advmod _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 19 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | Everest | | | | | 8,849 metres *obl*; high *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **is** | present | Exact numbers with units from a teacher or a book | | | | | real *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present | that hill | | | | | a thousand miles *obl*; high *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **not** **be** | present | Exact numbers with units from a teacher or a book *not said here* | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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:18`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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? 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