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title: When a story changes every time it is told, people stop believing al… — When the story falls apart · tree and pragmatics
description: When a story changes every time it is told, people stop believing all of it. Who acts: story, time, people. A sentence of the lesson «When the story falls apart» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# When the story falls apart, sentence 24

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When a story changes every time it is told, people stop believing all of it.

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**Who acts:** story, time, people · **What happens:** change, tell, stop, believe · **To what, where:** story, all · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «When the story falls apart» 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 (story, time, people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:431-when-the-story-falls-apart.lesson:24
# text = When a story changes every time it is told, people stop believing all of it.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 431-when-the-story-falls-apart.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	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	4	mark	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	changes	change	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
5	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	det	_	_
6	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
12	stop	stop	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	believing	believe	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	xcomp	_	_
14	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	13	obj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nmod	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	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 | **change** | present | a story |  |  |  | time |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present · passive | every time *not said here* | story |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
| 3 | **stop** | present | people |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **believe** | gerund | people *not said here* | all |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer all=Stimulus |

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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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**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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