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title: It is fun, but a lot of it is a small true thing with a big made-up… — Tabloids, «sources close to» and the photo that… · tree and pragmatics
description: It is fun, but a lot of it is a small true thing with a big made-up story wrapped round it. Who acts: bit, lot. A sentence of the lesson «Tabloids, «sources close to» and the photo that tells a story» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# Tabloids, «sources close to» and the photo that tells a story, sentence 1

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It is fun, but a lot of it is a small true thing with a big made-up story wrapped round it.

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**Who acts:** bit, lot · **What happens:** be, make up, wrap · **To what, where:** bit

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Tabloids, «sources close to» and the photo that tells a story» of the adult life 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 (bit, lot), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:adult-life:046-tabloids-sources-close-to-and-the-photo.lesson:1
# text = It is fun, but a lot of it is a small true thing with a big made-up story wrapped round it.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = adult-life
# lesson = 046-tabloids-sources-close-to-and-the-photo.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, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	fun	fun	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
5	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	lot	lot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
17	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
18	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	amod	_	_
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	_
20	up	up	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=18:compound:prt|HaikuPos=PART:RP:_
21	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
22	wrapped	wrap	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
23	round	round	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obl	_	_
25	.	.	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 | **is** | present | bit |  |  |  |  | fun *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | of a small true thing; with a big made story | tree rules |
| 3 | **make up** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **wrap** | past | a lot  bit | bit |  |  |  | round *property* | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme |

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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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**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:adult-life:046-tabloids-sources-close-to-and-the-photo.lesson:1`.

**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, R8-pos-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/).

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