--- title: Knowing one real fact is often enough to spot a tall tale — and you… — Boasting cousins and made-up holidays · tree and pragmatics description: Knowing one real fact is often enough to spot a tall tale — and you can enjoy a tall tale without believing it. Who acts: Knowing, you. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Knowing, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:435-boasting-cousins-and-made-up-holidays.lesson:2 # text = Knowing one real fact is often enough to spot a tall tale — and you can enjoy a tall tale without believing it. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 435-boasting-cousins-and-made-up-holidays.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 Knowing know VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 7 csubj _ _ 2 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 4 nummod _ _ 3 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 fact fact NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 5 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 6 often often ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 7 enough enough ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 8 to to PART TO _ 9 mark _ _ 9 spot spot VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 advcl _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 tall tall ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 tale tale NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 13 — - PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 15 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 16 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 17 enjoy enjoy VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 parataxis _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 tall tall ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 tale tale NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 21 without without SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ _ 22 believing believe VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 17 advcl _ _ 23 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 obj _ _ 24 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: evaluate - voice: narrator - polarity: pos - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **know** | gerund | | one real fact | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer fact=Stimulus | | 2 | **is** | present | Knowing | | | | | enough, often *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **spot** | to-infinitive | Knowing *not said here* | a tall tale | | | | | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme tale=Destination | | 4 | **enjoy** | can | you | a tall tale | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tale=Stimulus | | 5 | **believe** | gerund | you *not said here* | tale | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | 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. **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:435-boasting-cousins-and-made-up-holidays.lesson:2`. **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/). - ← previous: [Boasting cousins and made-up holidays, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/435-boasting-cousins-and-made-up-holidays/1/) - next →: [Boasting cousins and made-up holidays, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/435-boasting-cousins-and-made-up-holidays/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/435-boasting-cousins-and-made-up-holidays/)