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title: Many boasts are mostly true with one bit stretched; stories often gr… — Boasting cousins and made-up holidays · tree and pragmatics
description: Many boasts are mostly true with one bit stretched; stories often grow each time they are retold. Who acts: Many boasts, stories. 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 clau
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# Boasting cousins and made-up holidays, sentence 25

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Many boasts are mostly true with one bit stretched; stories often grow each time they are retold.

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**Who acts:** Many boasts, stories · **What happens:** be, stretch, grow, retell · **To what, where:** one bit, boasts

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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 (Many boasts, stories), 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:25
# text = Many boasts are mostly true with one bit stretched; stories often grow each time they are retold.
# 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	Many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	boasts	boast	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	mostly	mostly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	bit	bit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	stretched	stretch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
12	often	often	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	grow	grow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
14	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	15	det	_	_
15	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl:unmarked	_	_
16	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	retold	retell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl:relcl	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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** | present | Many boasts |  |  |  |  | with one bit; mostly, true *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **stretch** | participle |  | one bit *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **grow** | present | stories |  |  |  | time | often *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **retell** | present · passive |  | boasts *= boast* |  |  |  |  | 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:435-boasting-cousins-and-made-up-holidays.lesson:25`.

**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.

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