Each of the 854 sentences was expected to be judged by 5 annotators provided with minimal instructions on the subject at hand.
the annotators decided if a sentence contained a hyperbole (Question 1), and if so, they highlighted the words that caused its hyperbolic bent (Question 2), paraphrased it without exaggerating (Question 3), classified the hyperbole as quantitative or qualitative (Question 4), rated the degree of the exaggeration (Question 5) and established whether it was creative or conventional (Question 6).