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title: Most boasts are mostly true with one bit stretched; you don't have t… — Boasting cousins and made-up holidays · tree and pragmatics
description: Most boasts are mostly true with one bit stretched; you don't have to call it out every time. Who acts: Most boasts, 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.
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# Boasting cousins and made-up holidays, sentence 6

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Most boasts are mostly true with one bit stretched; you don't have to call it out every time.

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**Who acts:** Most boasts, you · **What happens:** be, stretch, not have, call out · **To what, where:** one bit, bit

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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 (Most boasts, 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:6
# text = Most boasts are mostly true with one bit stretched; you don't have to call it out every time.
# 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	Most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	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	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
12	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
14	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	call	call	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	out	out	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	_
19	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	20	det	_	_
20	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl:unmarked	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **is** | present | Most 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 | **not** **have** | present · do-support | you |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **call out** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | bit |  |  | time |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient |

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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.

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