--- title: «Sara walked a million miles round the shops» means she walked a lon… — Which number counts? Hyperbole and real numbers… · tree and pragmatics description: «Sara walked a million miles round the shops» means she walked a long way and is tired; her 2 bags × 5 apples = 10 apples. Who acts: Sara. 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 --- [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/9/) [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/) / 9 # Which number counts? Hyperbole and real numbers in maths, sentence 9 «Sara walked a million miles round the shops» means she walked a long way and is tired; her 2 bags × 5 apples = 10 apples. **Who acts:** Sara · **What happens:** walk, mean, be · **To what, where:** million miles, shops, long way · **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 (Sara), 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:9 # text = «Sara walked a million miles round the shops» means she walked a long way and is tired; her 2 bags × 5 apples = 10 apples. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 « « PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ _ 2 Sara Sara PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 walked walk VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:csubj 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 million million NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 6 nummod _ _ 6 miles mile NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 7 round round ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 shops shop NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 10 » » PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ 11 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 walked walk VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 ccomp _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 18 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 cop _ _ 19 tired tired ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 conj _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 21 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 22 2 2 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 23 nummod _ _ 23 bags bag NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 conj _ _ 24 × × SYM SYM _ 25 advmod _ _ 25 5 5 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 26 nummod _ _ 26 apples apple NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 conj _ _ 27 = = SYM SYM _ 29 punct _ _ 28 10 10 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 29 nummod _ _ 29 apples apple NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 conj _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **walk** *in a quote* | past | Sara | a million miles | | the shops and Sara's 2 bags and 5 apples and 10 apples | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent mile=Theme round shop=Trajectory | | 2 | **mean** | present | | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **walk** | past | Sara | a long way | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme way=Trajectory | | 4 | **is** | present | Sara *not said here* | | | | | tired *property* | 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:9`. **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): R7-rel-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/). - ← previous: [Which number counts? Hyperbole and rea…, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/46-which-number-counts-hyperbole-and-real-numbers-in-maths/8/) - next →: [Which number counts? 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