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title: A fake number is round and huge and comes inside a moan or a boast:… — Which number counts? Hyperbole and real numbers… · tree and pragmatics
description: A fake number is round and huge and comes inside a moan or a boast: «a million miles», «a thousand sweets», «a hundred things to do». Who acts: fake number, hundred things. A sentence of the lesson «Which number counts? Hyperbole and real numbers in maths» of the language course of Mova's primary sc
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# Which number counts? Hyperbole and real numbers in maths, sentence 4

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A fake number is round and huge and comes inside a moan or a boast: «a million miles», «a thousand sweets», «a hundred things to do».

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**Who acts:** fake number, hundred things · **What happens:** be, come, do · **To what, where:** moan

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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 (fake number, hundred things), 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:4
# text = A fake number is round and huge and comes inside a moan or a boast: «a million miles», «a thousand sweets», «a hundred things to do».
# 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 ×3, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	fake	fake	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	round	round	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
10	inside	inside	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	moan	moan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	boast	boast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
16	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
17	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=9:punct
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	million	million	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
20	miles	mile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	dep	_	_
21	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	26	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=9:punct
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	26	nummod	_	_
26	sweets	sweet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:dep
27	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	26	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=26:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
29	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	32	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=34:punct
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=32:det
31	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	32	nummod	_	_
32	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nsubj	_	_
33	to	to	PART	TO	_	34	mark	_	_
34	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
35	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	34	punct	_	_
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | a fake number |  |  |  |  | round *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | a fake number *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **come** | present | a fake number *not said here* |  |  | a moan or a boast |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme inside moan=Location |
| 4 | **do** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | hundred things |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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:4`.

**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 ×3, 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/).

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