--- title: In a word problem, use only the numbers that are about the thing ask… — Which number counts? Hyperbole and real numbers… · tree and pragmatics description: In a word problem, use only the numbers that are about the thing asked; «told his brother a hundred times» is decoration, and 3 shelves × 4 books = 12 books. Who acts: you, numbers, 3 shelves. A sentence of the lesson «Which number counts? Hyperbole and real numbers in maths» of the language course --- [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/8/) [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/) / 8 # Which number counts? Hyperbole and real numbers in maths, sentence 8 In a word problem, use only the numbers that are about the thing asked; «told his brother a hundred times» is decoration, and 3 shelves × 4 books = 12 books. **Who acts:** you, numbers, 3 shelves · **What happens:** use, be, tell, book · **To what, where:** numbers, word problem, brother, decoration · **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, 3 shelves), 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:8 # text = In a word problem, use only the numbers that are about the thing asked; «told his brother a hundred times» is decoration, and 3 shelves × 4 books = 12 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 In in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 problem problem NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 6 use use VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 only only ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 numbers number NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ _ 10 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 15 nsubj _ _ 11 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 12 about about ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 15 asked ask VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 acl:relcl _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT : _ 6 punct _ _ 17 « « PUNCT `` _ 18 punct _ _ 18 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 csubj _ _ 19 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 20 brother brother NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 iobj _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 hundred hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 23 nummod _ _ 23 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obl:unmarked _ _ 24 » » PUNCT '' _ 18 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=26:punct 25 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 cop _ _ 26 decoration decoration NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 parataxis _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 29 3 3 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 30 nummod _ _ 30 shelves shelf NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 nsubj _ _ 31 × × SYM SYM _ 33 advmod _ _ 32 4 4 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 33 nummod _ _ 33 books book NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=30:nmod 34 = = SYM SYM _ 35 punct _ _ 35 12 12 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 36 nummod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=36:compound 36 books book NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 conj _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **use** | imperative | you *not said here* | the numbers | | a word problem | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Patient | | 2 | **is** | present | the numbers | | | | | about the thing; ask *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | | | question's brother | | time | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent brother=Recipient | | 4 | **is a** | present | | decoration and 12 books | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **book** | | 3 shelves and 4 books | | | | | | 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:8`. **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. **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…, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/46-which-number-counts-hyperbole-and-real-numbers-in-maths/7/) - next →: [Which number counts? 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