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title: A kid tells Marcus-Lee, «Your mom's not your REAL mom, that's facts»… — Adoption · tree and pragmatics
description: A kid tells Marcus-Lee, «Your mom's not your REAL mom, that's facts» («facts» means that's true). Who acts: kid, mom, that, facts. A sentence of the lesson «Adoption» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Adoption, sentence 22

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A kid tells Marcus-Lee, «Your mom's not your REAL mom, that's facts» («facts» means that's true).

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**Who acts:** kid, mom, that, facts · **What happens:** tell, not be, be, mean · **To what, where:** Marcus, REAL mom, facts · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Adoption» 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 (kid, mom, that, facts), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:522-adoption.lesson:22
# text = A kid tells Marcus-Lee, «Your mom's not your REAL mom, that's facts» («facts» means that's true).
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 522-adoption.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): R6-punct-agree ×3
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	kid	kid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	tells	tell	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	Marcus	Marcus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	_
6	Lee	Lee	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
8	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	_
9	Your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	mom	mom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
11	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
12	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
13	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
14	REAL	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	mom	mom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	19	nsubj	_	_
18	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
19	facts	fact	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	parataxis	_	_
20	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
21	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	25	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=23:punct
22	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	_
23	facts	fact	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
24	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	23	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=25:punct
25	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
26	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	28	nsubj	_	_
27	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
28	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	ccomp	_	_
29	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	25	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=28:punct
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | a kid |  | Marcus |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent marcus=Recipient |
| 2 | **not** **is a** *in a quote* | present | Your mom | your REAL mom |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | that | facts |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **mean** | present | facts |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is** | present | that |  |  |  |  | true *property* | 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:522-adoption.lesson:22`.

**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): R6-punct-agree ×3. **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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