--- title: So before you calculate, ask: which numbers are about the thing the… — Which number counts? Hyperbole and real numbers… · tree and pragmatics description: So before you calculate, ask: which numbers are about the thing the question asks, and which are just feelings? Who acts: you, numbers, question, thing. 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 depend --- [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/7/) [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/) / 7 # Which number counts? Hyperbole and real numbers in maths, sentence 7 So before you calculate, ask: which numbers are about the thing the question asks, and which are just feelings? **Who acts:** you, numbers, question, thing · **What happens:** calculate, ask, be · **To what, where:** thing, feelings · **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 (you, numbers, question, thing), 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:7 # text = So before you calculate, ask: which numbers are about the thing the question asks, and which are just feelings? # 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): no change 1 So so ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 2 before before SCONJ IN _ 4 mark _ _ 3 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 calculate calculate VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 advcl _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 6 ask ask VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 : : PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ _ 8 which which DET WDT PronType=Rel 9 det _ _ 9 numbers number NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nsubj _ _ 10 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 11 about about ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 ccomp _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 question question NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 16 asks ask VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 acl:relcl _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 19 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 22 nsubj _ _ 20 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 21 just just ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 22 feelings feeling NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 conj _ _ 23 ? ? PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: yes/no question - act: ask - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **calculate** | present | you | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is** | present | which numbers | | | | | about the thing and feelings | tree rules | | 4 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | the question | the thing and feelings *not said here* | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent thing=Recipient | | 5 | **is a** | present | the thing and feelings | feelings | | | | | tree rules | 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:7`. **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): no change. **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? Hyperbole and rea…, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/46-which-number-counts-hyperbole-and-real-numbers-in-maths/6/) - next →: [Which number counts? 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