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title: Grown-ups often say more or less than they mean. — Olympiad: what is really going on ★★★ · tree and pragmatics
description: Grown-ups often say more or less than they mean. Who acts: Grown ups, ups. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: what is really going on ★★★» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Olympiad: what is really going on ★★★, sentence 1

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Grown-ups often say more or less than they mean.

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**Who acts:** Grown ups, ups · **What happens:** say, mean · **To what, where:** more · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: what is really going on ★★★» 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 (Grown ups, ups), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:adult-life:061-olympiad-what-is-really-going-on.lesson:1
# text = Grown-ups often say more or less than they mean.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = adult-life
# lesson = 061-olympiad-what-is-really-going-on.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
1	Grown	grow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	_
3	ups	up	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	often	often	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	obj	_	_
7	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	less	less	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	6	conj	_	_
9	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	mean	mean	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:advcl
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Grown ups | more |  |  |  | often *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent more=Topic |
| 2 | **mean** | present | ups *= up* |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |

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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:061-olympiad-what-is-really-going-on.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. **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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