--- title: Knowing a few real facts helps you spot exaggerations. — Boasting cousins and made-up holidays · tree and pragmatics description: Knowing a few real facts helps you spot exaggerations. Who acts: Knowing, you. A sentence of the lesson «Boasting cousins and made-up holidays» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/435-boasting-cousins-and-made-up-holidays/24/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Boasting cousins and made-up holidays](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/435-boasting-cousins-and-made-up-holidays/) / 24 # Boasting cousins and made-up holidays, sentence 24 Knowing a few real facts helps you spot exaggerations. **Who acts:** Knowing, you · **What happens:** know, help, spot · **To what, where:** few real facts, you, exaggerations This is a sentence of the lesson «Boasting cousins and made-up holidays» 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 (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:24 # text = Knowing a few real facts helps you spot exaggerations. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Knowing know VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 6 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:nsubj 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 3 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 4 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 facts fact NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obj _ _ 6 helps help VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 6 obj _ _ 8 spot spot VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 xcomp _ _ 9 exaggerations exaggeration NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ _ 10 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **know** | gerund | | a few real facts | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer fact=Stimulus | | 2 | **help** | present | Knowing | you | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary clause=Theme | | 3 | **spot** | infinitive | you *not said here* | exaggerations | | | | | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme exaggeration=Destination | 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:24`. **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/). - ← previous: [Boasting cousins and made-up holidays, 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/435-boasting-cousins-and-made-up-holidays/23/) - next →: [Boasting cousins and made-up holidays, 25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/435-boasting-cousins-and-made-up-holidays/25/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/435-boasting-cousins-and-made-up-holidays/)