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title: His brother tidies 3 shelves with 4 books on each» asks about books,… — Which number counts? Hyperbole and real numbers… · tree and pragmatics
description: His brother tidies 3 shelves with 4 books on each» asks about books, and only 3 and 4 are about books. Who acts: brother, 3. 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 pragmatics
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# Which number counts? Hyperbole and real numbers in maths, sentence 2

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His brother tidies 3 shelves with 4 books on each» asks about books, and only 3 and 4 are about books.

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**Who acts:** brother, 3 · **What happens:** tidy, ask, be · **To what, where:** 3 shelves, » · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (brother, 3), 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:2
# text = His brother tidies 3 shelves with 4 books on each» asks about books, and only 3 and 4 are about books.
# 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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	tidies	tidy	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	parataxis	_	_
4	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	shelves	shelf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	books	book	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	8	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:det
11	»	»	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
12	asks	ask	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:acl:relcl
13	about	about	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	books	book	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=18:punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	only	only	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	23	nsubj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	18	conj	_	_
21	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
22	about	about	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	books	book	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=23:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **tidy** | present | Tom's brother | 3 shelves |  |  |  | with 4 books  each | tree rules |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* *in a quote* | present | Tom's brother *not said here* |  |  | » |  | about books | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V PP.topic whether S»: agent=Agent about book=Topic |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present | 3 |  |  |  |  | about books | tree rules |

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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:2`.

**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 ×2, R6-punct-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/).

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