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title: Facts can check a boast: a team that won 3–2 scored 3 goals, so no p… — My dad could lift a car: playground boasting · tree and pragmatics
description: Facts can check a boast: a team that won 3–2 scored 3 goals, so no player in it scored 10. Who acts: Facts, team, player. A sentence of the lesson «My dad could lift a car: playground boasting» of the language course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# My dad could lift a car: playground boasting, sentence 17

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Facts can check a boast: a team that won 3–2 scored 3 goals, so no player in it scored 10.

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**Who acts:** Facts, team, player · **What happens:** check, win, score · **To what, where:** boast, 3, 3 goals, 10

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This is a sentence of the lesson «My dad could lift a car: playground boasting» of the language 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 (Facts, team, player), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:language:048-my-dad-could-lift-a-car-playground-boasting.lesson:17
# text = Facts can check a boast: a team that won 3–2 scored 3 goals, so no player in it scored 10.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = language
# lesson = 048-my-dad-could-lift-a-car-playground-boasting.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	Facts	fact	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	check	check	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	boast	boast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	team	team	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
9	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
10	won	win	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
11	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	obj	_	_
12	–	–	SYM	SYM	ExtPos=ADP	11	flat	_	_
13	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	flat	_	_
14	scored	score	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
15	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
16	goals	goal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	so	so	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
19	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	20	det	_	_
20	player	player	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nmod	_	_
23	scored	score	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
24	10	10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	23	obj	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **check** | can | Facts | a boast |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boast=Theme |
| 2 | **win** | past | a team | 3 |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 3=Eventuality |
| 3 | **score** | past | a team | 3 goals |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goal=Theme |
| 4 | **score** | past | no player in team | 10 |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 10=Theme |

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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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