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title: Some claims sound like wild hyperbole but are plain fact, such as "w… — Olympiad: speed, space and seasons ★★★ · tree and pragmatics
description: Some claims sound like wild hyperbole but are plain fact, such as "we're whizzing round the Sun at 100,000 kilometres an hour right now", while others that sound sensible, such as "the Moon has a dark side that never gets sunshine", are myths. Who acts: claims, we, others, Moon. A sentence of the le
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# Olympiad: speed, space and seasons ★★★, sentence 4

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Some claims sound like wild hyperbole but are plain fact, such as "we're whizzing round the Sun at 100,000 kilometres an hour right now", while others that sound sensible, such as "the Moon has a dark side that never gets sunshine", are myths.

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**Who acts:** claims, we, others, Moon, dark side · **What happens:** sound, be, whiz, have, not get · **To what, where:** plain fact, 100,000 kilometres, dark side, sunshine, such myths

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: speed, space and seasons ★★★» of the physics 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 (claims, we, others, Moon), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:physics:044-olympiad-speed-space-and-seasons.lesson:4
# text = Some claims sound like wild hyperbole but are plain fact, such as "we're whizzing round the Sun at 100,000 kilometres an hour right now", while others that sound sensible, such as "the Moon has a dark side that never gets sunshine", are myths.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = physics
# lesson = 044-olympiad-speed-space-and-seasons.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	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	claims	claim	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	sound	sound	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	like	like	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	hyperbole	hyperbole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	plain	plain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	fact	fact	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
12	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=SCONJ	17	mark	_	_
13	as	as	ADP	IN	_	12	fixed	_	_
14	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	_
15	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	're	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	whizzing	whiz	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	acl	_	_
18	round	round	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	Sun	Sun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	at	at	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	100,000	100000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
23	kilometres	kilometre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
24	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod:unmarked	_	_
26	right	right	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	17	advmod	_	_
28	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	52	mark	_	_
31	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	52	nsubj	_	_
32	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	33	nsubj	_	_
33	sound	sound	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	acl:relcl	_	_
34	sensible	sensible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	xcomp	_	_
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
36	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	52	amod	_	_
37	as	as	ADP	IN	_	36	fixed	_	_
38	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	41	punct	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	Moon	Moon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	41	nsubj	_	_
41	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	36	conj	_	_
42	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
43	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
44	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obj	_	_
45	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	47	nsubj	_	_
46	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	47	advmod	_	_
47	gets	get	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	44	acl:relcl	_	_
48	sunshine	sunshine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obj	_	_
49	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	41	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=48:punct
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
51	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	52	cop	_	_
52	myths	myth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **sound** | present | some claims |  |  |  |  | like wild hyperbole | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **is a** | present | some claims *not said here* | plain fact |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **whiz** *in a quote* | present · progressive | we | plain fact *not said here* |  | 100,000 kilometres  a hour | now | round the Sun | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location fact=Theme |
| 4 | **sound** | present | others |  |  |  |  | sensible *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 5 | **have** *in a quote* | present | the Moon | a dark side |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent side=Patient |
| 6 | **not** **get** *in a quote* | present | a dark side | sunshine |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sunshine=Stimulus |
| 7 | **is a** | present | others | such myths |  |  |  |  | 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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**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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