--- title: Some puzzles test what people say: «the tunnel's like a thousand mil… — Olympiad: transport, building and energy ★★★ · tree and pragmatics description: Some puzzles test what people say: «the tunnel's like a thousand miles long» is hyperbole for a long tunnel, and «bit nippy, roads are like glass» can mean real ice. Who acts: puzzles, people, tunnel, roads. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: transport, building and energy ★★★» of the technology co --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/43-olympiad-transport-building-and-energy/4/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Technology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/) / [Olympiad: transport, building and ener…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/43-olympiad-transport-building-and-energy/) / 4 # Olympiad: transport, building and energy ★★★, sentence 4 Some puzzles test what people say: «the tunnel's like a thousand miles long» is hyperbole for a long tunnel, and «bit nippy, roads are like glass» can mean real ice. **Who acts:** puzzles, people, tunnel, roads · **What happens:** test, say, be, mean · **To what, where:** » hyperbole, tunnel, real ice · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: transport, building and energy ★★★» of the technology 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 (puzzles, people, tunnel, roads), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:technology:043-olympiad-transport-building-and-energy.lesson:4 # text = Some puzzles test what people say: «the tunnel's like a thousand miles long» is hyperbole for a long tunnel, and «bit nippy, roads are like glass» can mean real ice. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = technology # lesson = 043-olympiad-transport-building-and-energy.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 ×3 1 Some some DET DT PronType=Ind 2 det _ _ 2 puzzles puzzle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 test test VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 6 obj _ _ 5 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 6 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 ccomp _ _ 7 : : PUNCT : _ 3 punct _ _ 8 « « PUNCT `` _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 tunnel tunnel NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 11 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 12 like like ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 thousand thousand NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 15 nummod _ _ 15 miles mile NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 ccomp _ _ 16 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 19 advmod _ _ 17 » » PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 18 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 cop _ _ 19 hyperbole hyperbole NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 conj _ _ 20 for for ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 tunnel tunnel NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nmod _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 26 « « PUNCT `` _ 27 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=28:punct 27 bit bit NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl:unmarked _ _ 28 nippy nippy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 conj _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=30:punct 30 roads road NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 nsubj _ _ 31 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 cop _ _ 32 like like ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 glass glass NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 acl:relcl _ _ 34 » » PUNCT '' _ 33 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=36:punct 35 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 36 aux _ _ 36 mean mean VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 ccomp _ _ 37 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 ice ice NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obj _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **test** | present | some puzzles | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | people | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present | the tunnel and » hyperbole | | | | | like thousand miles | tree rules | | 4 | **is a** | present | the tunnel and » hyperbole *not said here* | » hyperbole | | | | for a long tunnel; long *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **is** *in a quote* | present | roads | the tunnel and » hyperbole *not said here* | | | | like glass | tree rules | | 6 | **mean** | can | | real ice | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ice=Topic | 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. 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