--- title: "The queue was a mile long" and "I'm starving" are hyperbole, not nu… — Olympiad: everyday reasoning ★★★ · tree and pragmatics description: "The queue was a mile long" and "I'm starving" are hyperbole, not numbers; "it's just a scratch" may hide a real injury, and then the wise move is to check and tell an adult. Who acts: queue, Real talk, mile, wise move. 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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 (queue, Real talk, mile, wise move), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:world:194-olympiad-everyday-reasoning.lesson:7 # text = "The queue was a mile long" and "I'm starving" are hyperbole, not numbers; "it's just a scratch" may hide a real injury, and then the wise move is to check and tell an adult. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = world # lesson = 194-olympiad-everyday-reasoning.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): R1-cc-next ×3, R6-punct-agree ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ _ 2 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 queue queue NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 4 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 mile mile NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 7 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 6 advmod _ _ 8 " " PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=13:punct 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=6:cc 10 " " PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ _ 11 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 12 'm be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 13 starving starve VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 6 conj _ _ 14 " " PUNCT '' _ 13 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=6:punct 15 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ _ 16 hyperbole hyperbole NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 parataxis _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 19 advmod _ _ 19 numbers number NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:parataxis 20 ; ; PUNCT : _ 26 punct _ _ 21 " " PUNCT `` _ 26 punct _ _ 22 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 23 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 cop _ _ 24 just just ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 scratch scratch NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 csubj _ _ 27 " " PUNCT '' _ 26 punct _ _ 28 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 29 hide hide VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 31 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 injury injury NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 33 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=29:cc 35 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 38 advmod _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 37 wise wise ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 move move NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 nsubj _ _ 39 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 41 cop _ _ 40 to to PART TO _ 41 mark _ _ 41 check check VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 conj _ _ 42 and and CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=41:cc 43 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 41 conj _ _ 44 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 45 adult adult NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 obj _ _ 46 . . PUNCT . _ 16 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=29: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 a** *in a quote* | past | the queue | a mile | | | | long *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **starve** *in a quote* | present · progressive | Real talk *= talk* | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **is a** | present | a mile | hyperbole and numbers | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | mile | a scratch | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **hide** | may | | a real injury | | | | | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent injury=Patient | | 6 | **is** | present | the wise move | | | | | check *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive | a adult | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:world:194-olympiad-everyday-reasoning.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): R1-cc-next ×3, R6-punct-agree ×3, 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: everyday reasoning ★★★, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/194-olympiad-everyday-reasoning/6/) - next →: [Olympiad: everyday reasoning ★★★, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/194-olympiad-everyday-reasoning/8/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/194-olympiad-everyday-reasoning/)