--- title: Real people pile on hyperbole and play things down: "a million peopl… — Olympiad: check the claim and spot the trick ★★★ · tree and pragmatics description: Real people pile on hyperbole and play things down: "a million people at the rally" in a square that holds 5,000 is an exaggeration to spot, and "not sure yet" is always an honest answer. Who acts: Real people, square. 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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 (Real people, square), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:politics:042-olympiad-check-the-claim-and-spot-the-trick.lesson:4 # text = Real people pile on hyperbole and play things down: "a million people at the rally" in a square that holds 5,000 is an exaggeration to spot, and "not sure yet" is always an honest answer. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = politics # lesson = 042-olympiad-check-the-claim-and-spot-the-trick.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, R6-punct-agree ×2 1 Real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:nsubj 3 pile pile VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 4 on on ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 hyperbole hyperbole NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 play play VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obj _ _ 9 down down ADP RP _ 7 compound:prt _ _ 10 : : PUNCT : _ 14 punct _ _ 11 " " PUNCT `` _ 14 punct _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 million million NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 14 nummod _ _ 14 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 conj _ _ 15 at at ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 rally rally NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod _ _ 18 " " PUNCT '' _ 14 punct _ _ 19 in in ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 square square NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod _ _ 22 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 23 nsubj _ _ 23 holds hold VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 acl:relcl _ _ 24 5,000 5000 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 23 obj _ _ 25 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 cop _ _ 26 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 exaggeration exaggeration NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 conj _ _ 28 to to PART TO _ 29 mark _ _ 29 spot spot VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 acl _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 32 " " PUNCT `` _ 34 punct _ _ 33 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 34 advmod _ _ 34 sure sure ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 conj _ _ 35 yet yet ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 36 " " PUNCT '' _ 34 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=35:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_ 37 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 41 cop _ _ 38 always always ADV RB PronType=Tot 41 advmod _ _ 39 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 40 honest honest ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 amod _ _ 41 answer answer NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 conj _ _ 42 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=7:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **pile** | present | Real people | | | hyperbole | | | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on hyperbole=Destination | | 2 | **play down** | present | | things | | | | | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme | | 3 | **hold** | present | a square | 5,000 | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 5000=Theme | | 4 | **is a** | present | | a exaggeration | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **spot** | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme» | | 6 | **is a** | present | | a honest answer | | | | always *property* | 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:politics:042-olympiad-check-the-claim-and-spot-the-trick.lesson:4`. **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, R6-punct-agree ×2. **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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