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title: And when the boaster corrects himself — «a MILLION Robux, well, 500»… — My dad could lift a car: playground boasting · tree and pragmatics
description: And when the boaster corrects himself — «a MILLION Robux, well, 500» — the corrected number is the one that counts. Who acts: boaster, corrected number, one. 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 tr
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# My dad could lift a car: playground boasting, sentence 5

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And when the boaster corrects himself — «a MILLION Robux, well, 500» — the corrected number is the one that counts.

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**Who acts:** boaster, corrected number, one · **What happens:** correct, be, count · **To what, where:** boaster, one

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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 (boaster, corrected number, one), 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:5
# text = And when the boaster corrects himself — «a MILLION Robux, well, 500» — the corrected number is the one that counts.
# 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	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
2	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	boaster	boaster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	corrects	correct	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	advcl	_	_
6	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	5	obj	_	_
7	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
8	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	MILLION	million	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	parataxis	_	_
11	Robux	Robux	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod:unmarked	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	well	well	INTJ	UH	_	15	discourse	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
15	500	500	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	appos	_	_
16	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	23	punct	_	_
17	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	corrected	correct	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	amod	_	_
20	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
21	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
24	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
25	counts	count	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	acl:relcl	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	23	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 | **correct** *speech: disagree* | present | the boaster | boaster |  |  |  |  | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent himself=Patient |
| 2 | **correct** *speech: disagree* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | present | the corrected number | the one |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **count** | present | the one |  |  |  |  |  | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |

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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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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