--- title: In one sentence one number can be real and another fake: «Gran has t… — ★★★ Olympiad: hyperbole and downplaying puzzles · tree and pragmatics description: In one sentence one number can be real and another fake: «Gran has told me a thousand times she was born in 1950» gives a real year (1950) and a hyperbolic count (a thousand), so in 2000 she was 50. Who acts: one number, Gran. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one number, Gran), 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:7 # text = In one sentence one number can be real and another fake: «Gran has told me a thousand times she was born in 1950» gives a real year (1950) and a hyperbolic count (a thousand), so in 2000 she was 50. # 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 ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 3 sentence sentence NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 4 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 5 nummod _ _ 5 number number NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 6 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 7 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 8 cop _ _ 8 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 10 another another DET DT PronType=Ind 11 det _ _ 11 fake fake ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=8:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 12 : : PUNCT : _ 8 punct _ _ 13 « « PUNCT `` _ 16 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=23:punct 14 Gran Gran PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 15 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 16 told tell VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 8 parataxis _ _ 17 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 16 iobj _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 thousand thousand NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 20 nummod _ _ 20 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obl:unmarked _ _ 21 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj:pass _ _ 22 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 aux:pass _ _ 23 born bear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 16 ccomp _ _ 24 in in ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 1950 1950 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 23 obl _ _ 26 » » PUNCT '' _ 16 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=25:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 27 gives give VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 31 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 32 punct _ _ 32 1950 1950 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 30 appos _ _ 33 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 32 punct _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 35 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 36 hyperbolic hyperbolic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 count count NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 conj _ _ 38 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 40 punct _ _ 39 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 thousand thousand NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 37 appos _ _ 41 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 40 punct _ _ 42 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 43 so so ADV RB _ 48 advmod _ _ 44 in in ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 45 2000 2000 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 48 obl _ _ 46 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 48 nsubj _ _ 47 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 48 cop _ _ 48 50 50 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 8 parataxis _ _ 49 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | can | one number | | | one sentence | | real *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **be** | | one number *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present · perfect | Gran | | Gran | | time | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic | | 4 | **bear** *in a quote* | past · passive | | Gran | | 1950 | | | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 5 | **give** | present | | | | | year | | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 6 | **is a** | past | Gran | 50 | | 2000 | | | 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:055-olympiad-hyperbole-and-downplaying-puzzles.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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R8-pos-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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