--- title: Watch the wording too: "a million times" is hyperbole and is never a… — Olympiad: which claim is true? ★★★ · tree and pragmatics description: Watch the wording too: "a million times" is hyperbole and is never a number to count, while "a bit weaker" can be a plain, true understatement. Who acts: you, million times, weaker. 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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 (you, million times, weaker), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:myths:036-olympiad-which-claim-is-true.lesson:3 # text = Watch the wording too: "a million times" is hyperbole and is never a number to count, while "a bit weaker" can be a plain, true understatement. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = myths # lesson = 036-olympiad-which-claim-is-true.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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Watch watch VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 wording wording NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 too too ADV RB _ 1 advmod _ _ 5 : : PUNCT : _ 12 punct _ _ 6 " " PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 million million NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 9 nummod _ _ 9 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nsubj _ _ 10 " " PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ _ 11 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ _ 12 hyperbole hyperbole NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 parataxis _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 14 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 cop _ _ 15 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 17 advmod _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 number number NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 conj _ _ 18 to to PART TO _ 19 mark _ _ 19 count count VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 acl _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 21 while while SCONJ IN _ 30 mark _ _ 22 " " PUNCT `` _ 25 punct _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:det 24 bit bit NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=25:compound 25 weaker weaker NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 26 " " PUNCT '' _ 25 punct _ _ 27 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 28 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 30 cop _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 plain plain NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 advcl _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 32 true true ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 understatement understatement NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 conj _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: request - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **watch** | imperative | you *not said here* | the wording | | | | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wording=Theme | | 2 | **is a** | present | million times | hyperbole and a number | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **not** **is a** | present | million times *not said here* | a number | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **count** | to-infinitive | million times *not said here* | | | | | | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | | 5 | **is a** | can | weaker | a plain and true understatement | | | | | 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:myths:036-olympiad-which-claim-is-true.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): R5-strong ×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/). - ← previous: [Olympiad: which claim is true? ★★★, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/36-olympiad-which-claim-is-true/2/) - next →: [Olympiad: which claim is true? ★★★, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/36-olympiad-which-claim-is-true/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/36-olympiad-which-claim-is-true/)