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title: One sentence, two numbers: 1950 is a fact, the thousand is a moan. — ★★★ Olympiad: hyperbole and downplaying puzzles · tree and pragmatics
description: One sentence, two numbers: 1950 is a fact, the thousand is a moan. Who acts: 1950, thousand. A sentence of the lesson «★★★ Olympiad: hyperbole and downplaying puzzles» of the language course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# ★★★ Olympiad: hyperbole and downplaying puzzles, sentence 3

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One sentence, two numbers: 1950 is a fact, the thousand is a moan.

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**Who acts:** 1950, thousand · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** fact, moan

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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 (1950, thousand), 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:3
# text = One sentence, two numbers: 1950 is a fact, the thousand is a moan.
# 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	sentence	sentence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	numbers	number	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	parataxis	_	_
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
7	1950	1950	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	nsubj	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	fact	fact	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=10:punct
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	thousand	thousand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	moan	moan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:conj
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **is a** | present | 1950 | a fact |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present | the thousand | a moan |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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:055-olympiad-hyperbole-and-downplaying-puzzles.lesson:3`.

**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): R2-punct-next ×1, 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/).

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