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title: "Allegedly" means someone has claimed it but it is not proved; a par… — Rumours about classmates and what to do with a s… · tree and pragmatics
description: "Allegedly" means someone has claimed it but it is not proved; a parody account is a joke copying a real name. Who acts: someone, parody account, joke. A sentence of the lesson «Rumours about classmates and what to do with a secret» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school with its dependen
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# Rumours about classmates and what to do with a secret, sentence 20

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"Allegedly" means someone has claimed it but it is not proved; a parody account is a joke copying a real name.

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**Who acts:** someone, parody account, joke · **What happens:** mean, claim, not prove, be, copy · **To what, where:** story, joke, real name · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Rumours about classmates and what to do with a secret» 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 (someone, parody account, joke), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:adult-life:050-rumours-about-classmates-and-secrets.lesson:20
# text = "Allegedly" means someone has claimed it but it is not proved; a parody account is a joke copying a real name.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = adult-life
# lesson = 050-rumours-about-classmates-and-secrets.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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4:punct
2	Allegedly	allegedly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
3	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
4	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	7	nsubj	_	_
6	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	claimed	claim	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	ccomp	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=7:cc
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
12	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
13	proved	prove	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	parody	parody	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	account	account	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	joke	joke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj
21	copying	copy	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	acl	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present |  |  |  |  |  | allegedly *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **claim** *speech: other* | present · perfect | someone | story |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic |
| 3 | **not** **prove** | present · passive |  | story |  |  |  |  | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **is a** | present | a parody account | a joke |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **copy** | gerund | a joke *not said here* | a real name |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=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:050-rumours-about-classmates-and-secrets.lesson:20`.

**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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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/).

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