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title: Some are true, some are old stories told again, and some are simply… — Animals in the news: true stories, fakes and how… · tree and pragmatics
description: Some are true, some are old stories told again, and some are simply fakes. Who acts: Some. A sentence of the lesson «Animals in the news: true stories, fakes and how to read them» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Animals in the news: true stories, fakes and how to read them, sentence 1

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Some are true, some are old stories told again, and some are simply fakes.

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**Who acts:** Some · **What happens:** be, tell · **To what, where:** old stories, fakes · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Animals in the news: true stories, fakes and how to read them» of the biology 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 (Some), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:296-animals-in-the-news-true-stories-fakes-and-how-to-read-them.lesson:1
# text = Some are true, some are old stories told again, and some are simply fakes.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 296-animals-in-the-news-true-stories-fakes-and-how-to-read-them.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 ×3
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	3	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	8	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:det
6	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj
9	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	_
10	again	again	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
13	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	16	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:det
14	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
15	simply	simply	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	fakes	fake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
17	.	.	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 | Some |  |  |  |  | true *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present | some | old stories |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | participle |  | old stories *not said here* |  |  | again |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is a** | present | some | fakes |  |  |  | simply *property* | tree rules |

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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:biology:296-animals-in-the-news-true-stories-fakes-and-how-to-read-them.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 ×3. **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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