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title: Some myths have a grain of truth: it is fine to swim after a snack,… — The night sky and outdoor myths · tree and pragmatics
description: Some myths have a grain of truth: it is fine to swim after a snack, but not when you are very full or tired. Who acts: myths, you. A sentence of the lesson «The night sky and outdoor myths» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The night sky and outdoor myths, sentence 6

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Some myths have a grain of truth: it is fine to swim after a snack, but not when you are very full or tired.

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**Who acts:** myths, you · **What happens:** have, be, swim, not be · **To what, where:** grain

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The night sky and outdoor myths» of the everyday 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 (myths, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:240-night-sky-and-outdoor-myths.lesson:6
# text = Some myths have a grain of truth: it is fine to swim after a snack, but not when you are very full or tired.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 240-night-sky-and-outdoor-myths.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	2	det	_	_
2	myths	myth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	grain	grain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	truth	truth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	expl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	swim	swim	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	csubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:xcomp
14	after	after	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	snack	snack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
18	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
19	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	24	advmod	_	_
20	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	24	advmod	_	_
21	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
22	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
23	very	very	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	parataxis	_	_
25	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	tired	tired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	conj	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | some myths | a grain of truth |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grain=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | fine *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **swim** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  | after a snack |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **not** **is** | present | you |  |  |  |  | full *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **be** |  | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | 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:everyday:240-night-sky-and-outdoor-myths.lesson:6`.

**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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