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title: «Over 1 million people visited the museum this year» is a measured n… — ★★★ Olympiad: hyperbole and downplaying puzzles · tree and pragmatics
description: «Over 1 million people visited the museum this year» is a measured number tied to a place and a time; «A MILLION reasons to love summer!» is a feeling dressed up as a number. Who acts: million people, MILLION reasons. A sentence of the lesson «★★★ Olympiad: hyperbole and downplaying puzzles» of the 
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# ★★★ Olympiad: hyperbole and downplaying puzzles, sentence 10

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«Over 1 million people visited the museum this year» is a measured number tied to a place and a time; «A MILLION reasons to love summer!» is a feeling dressed up as a number.

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**Who acts:** million people, MILLION reasons · **What happens:** visit, measure, be, tie, love, dress up · **To what, where:** museum, measured number, feeling

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This is a sentence of the lesson «★★★ Olympiad: hyperbole and downplaying puzzles» 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 (million people, MILLION reasons), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:language:055-olympiad-hyperbole-and-downplaying-puzzles.lesson:10
# text = «Over 1 million people visited the museum this year» is a measured number tied to a place and a time; «A MILLION reasons to love summer!» is a feeling dressed up as a number.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = language
# lesson = 055-olympiad-hyperbole-and-downplaying-puzzles.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
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	_
2	Over	over	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
3	1	1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	compound	_	_
4	million	million	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	visited	visit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	museum	museum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	det	_	_
10	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
11	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	measured	measure	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	amod	_	_
15	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
16	tied	tie	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
23	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	27	punct	_	_
25	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	MILLION	million	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	27	nummod	_	_
27	reasons	reason	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	nsubj	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	love	love	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	acl	_	_
30	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
31	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	27	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=32:punct
32	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	27	punct	_	_
33	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	35	cop	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	feeling	feeling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
36	dressed	dress	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	35	acl	_	_
37	up	up	ADP	RP	_	36	compound:prt	_	_
38	as	as	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	_
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **visit** *in a quote* | past | million people | the museum |  |  | year |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent museum=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **measure** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** | present | million people *not said here* | a measured number |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **tie** | participle |  | a measured number *not said here* |  |  |  | to a place and a time | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: agent=Patient to place=Co-Patient |
| 5 | **love** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | a MILLION reasons *not said here* |  |  |  | summer |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer |
| 6 | **is a** | present | a MILLION reasons | a feeling |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **dress up** | participle |  | a feeling *not said here* |  |  |  | as a number | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «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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**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. **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.

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