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title: Surprising does not mean false, and it does not mean true either: it… — Pretend games, quotes and two bots that disagree · tree and pragmatics
description: Surprising does not mean false, and it does not mean true either: it means check. Who acts: it, bot. A sentence of the lesson «Pretend games, quotes and two bots that disagree» of the ai course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Pretend games, quotes and two bots that disagree, sentence 1

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Surprising does not mean false, and it does not mean true either: it means check.

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**Who acts:** it, bot · **What happens:** surprising, not mean, mean · **To what, where:** check · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Pretend games, quotes and two bots that disagree» of the ai 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 (it, bot), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:ai:007-pretend-games-quotes-and-two-bots.lesson:1
# text = Surprising does not mean false, and it does not mean true either: it means check.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = ai
# lesson = 007-pretend-games-quotes-and-two-bots.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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Surprising	surprising	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	nsubj	_	_
2	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	mean	mean	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	false	false	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
9	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
11	mean	mean	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
12	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	xcomp	_	_
13	either	either	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	ccomp	_	_
17	check	check	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:ccomp|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **surprising** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **mean** | present · do-support |  |  |  |  |  | false *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **not** **mean** | present · do-support | it |  |  |  |  | true *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **mean** | present | bot | check |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent check=Topic |

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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:ai:007-pretend-games-quotes-and-two-bots.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): 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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