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title: "Not untrue" is a double negative meaning "true". — Olympiad: tricky comprehension · tree and pragmatics
description: "Not untrue" is a double negative meaning "true". Who acts: untrue, double negative. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: tricky comprehension» of the english course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Olympiad: tricky comprehension, sentence 7

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"Not untrue" is a double negative meaning "true".

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**Who acts:** untrue, double negative · **What happens:** be, mean · **To what, where:** double negative, true

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: tricky comprehension» of the english 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 (untrue, double negative), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:english:060-olympiad-tricky-comprehension.lesson:7
# text = "Not untrue" is a double negative meaning "true".
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = english
# lesson = 060-olympiad-tricky-comprehension.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): no change
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	_
2	Not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	3	advmod	_	_
3	untrue	untrue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	nsubj	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	double	double	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	negative	negative	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	meaning	mean	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	acl	_	_
10	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	_
11	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	obj	_	_
12	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 a** | present | untrue | a double negative |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **mean** | gerund | a double negative *not said here* | true |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent true=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:english:060-olympiad-tricky-comprehension.lesson:7`.

**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): no change. **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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