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title: They laughed: «Must've been her twin, eh.» Her friend wasn't lying —… — The check that settles it · tree and pragmatics
description: They laughed: «Must've been her twin, eh.» Her friend wasn't lying — just mistaken. Who acts: Lots, friend. A sentence of the lesson «The check that settles it» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The check that settles it, sentence 24

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They laughed: «Must've been her twin, eh.» Her friend wasn't lying — just mistaken.

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**Who acts:** Lots, friend · **What happens:** laugh, be, not lie · **To what, where:** twin · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The check that settles it» 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 (Lots, friend), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:451-the-check-that-settles-it.lesson:24
# text = They laughed: «Must've been her twin, eh.» Her friend wasn't lying — just mistaken.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 451-the-check-that-settles-it.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 ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	laughed	laugh	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
4	«	«	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
5	Must	must	AUX	MD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
6	've	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	aux	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=9:aux|HaikuPos=AUX:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin
7	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	cop	_	_
8	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	twin	twin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	ccomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:parataxis
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
11	eh	eh	INTJ	UH	Number=Sing	9	discourse	_	_
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
13	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
14	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
18	lying	lie	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
19	—	—	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
20	just	just	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	mistaken	mistaken	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:xcomp
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **laugh** | past | Lots *= lot* |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | must · perfect | Lots *= lot* *not said here* | friend's twin |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **lie** | past · progressive | friend's friend |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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:451-the-check-that-settles-it.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 ×2, R8-pos-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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