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title: The earlier you say «actually, that wasn't true», the easier it is. — When the story falls apart · tree and pragmatics
description: The earlier you say «actually, that wasn't true», the easier it is. Who acts: you, that, story. 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 31

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The earlier you say «actually, that wasn't true», the easier it is.

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**Who acts:** you, that, story · **What happens:** say, not be, be · **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 (you, that, story), 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:31
# text = The earlier you say «actually, that wasn't true», the easier it is.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	earlier	early	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	4	advmod	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	_
5	«	«	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	actually	actually	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	11	nsubj	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
10	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
11	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	ccomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:parataxis
12	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	easier	easy	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	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 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | you |  |  |  |  | actually, early *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **not** **is** *in a quote* | past | that |  |  |  |  | true *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | present | story |  |  |  |  | easy *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:everyday:431-when-the-story-falls-apart.lesson:31`.

**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 ×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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