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title: A «cure for everything» is a myth; real medicines are tested and wor… — Facts, opinions, clickbait and saying no to dares · tree and pragmatics
description: A «cure for everything» is a myth; real medicines are tested and work for specific problems. Who acts: cure. A sentence of the lesson «Facts, opinions, clickbait and saying no to dares» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Facts, opinions, clickbait and saying no to dares, sentence 16

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A «cure for everything» is a myth; real medicines are tested and work for specific problems.

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**Who acts:** cure · **What happens:** be, test, work · **To what, where:** myth, real medicines

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Facts, opinions, clickbait and saying no to dares» 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 (cure), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:284-facts-opinions-and-saying-no-to-dares.lesson:16
# text = A «cure for everything» is a myth; real medicines are tested and work for specific problems.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 284-facts-opinions-and-saying-no-to-dares.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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	_
3	cure	cure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	3	nmod	_	_
6	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	myth	myth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
11	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	medicines	medicine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
13	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	tested	test	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	parataxis	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	work	work	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=14:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	specific	specific	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	problems	problem	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | a cure for everything | a myth |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **test** | present · passive |  | real medicines |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **work** | present |  |  |  |  |  | for specific problems | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for problem=Beneficiary |

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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:284-facts-opinions-and-saying-no-to-dares.lesson:16`.

**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): R8-pos-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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