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title: And when someone corrects themselves — «like a million people, well,… — Which number counts? Hyperbole and real numbers… · tree and pragmatics
description: And when someone corrects themselves — «like a million people, well, thirty» — the last real number is the one that counts. Who acts: someone, last real number, one. A sentence of the lesson «Which number counts? Hyperbole and real numbers in maths» of the language course of Mova's primary school wi
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# Which number counts? Hyperbole and real numbers in maths, sentence 6

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And when someone corrects themselves — «like a million people, well, thirty» — the last real number is the one that counts.

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**Who acts:** someone, last real number, one · **What happens:** correct, like, be, count · **To what, where:** things, million people, one · **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 (someone, last real number, one), 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:6
# text = And when someone corrects themselves — «like a million people, well, thirty» — the last real number is the one that counts.
# 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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
3	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	4	nsubj	_	_
4	corrects	correct	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	4	obj	_	_
6	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=8:punct
7	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	_
8	like	like	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	million	million	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
13	well	well	INTJ	UH	_	15	discourse	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:discourse
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
15	thirty	thirty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
16	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
17	—	-	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
19	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
20	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
22	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	_
25	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj	_	_
26	counts	count	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	acl:relcl	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	24	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed polarity=none

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **correct** *speech: disagree* | present | someone | things *= thing* |  |  |  |  | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient |
| 2 | **like** *in a quote* | infinitive | someone *not said here* | million people |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot people=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** | present | the last real number | the one |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **count** | present | the one |  |  |  |  |  | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |

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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:6`.

**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 ×1, 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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