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title: And some true facts sound unbelievable — a science book is not a pla… — Sarcasm, hyperbole and understatement side by side · tree and pragmatics
description: And some true facts sound unbelievable — a science book is not a playground boast. Who acts: true facts, science book. A sentence of the lesson «Sarcasm, hyperbole and understatement side by side» of the language course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl
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# Sarcasm, hyperbole and understatement side by side, sentence 6

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And some true facts sound unbelievable — a science book is not a playground boast.

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**Who acts:** true facts, science book · **What happens:** sound, not be · **To what, where:** playground boast

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Sarcasm, hyperbole and understatement side by side» 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 (true facts, science book), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:language:052-sarcasm-hyperbole-and-understatement-side-by-side.lesson:6
# text = And some true facts sound unbelievable — a science book is not a playground boast.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = language
# lesson = 052-sarcasm-hyperbole-and-understatement-side-by-side.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	_	5	cc	_	_
2	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	4	det	_	_
3	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	facts	fact	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	sound	sound	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	unbelievable	unbelievable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	_
7	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	science	science	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
11	is	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	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	playground	playground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	boast	boast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **sound** | present | some true facts |  |  |  |  | unbelievable *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **not** **is a** | present | a science book | a playground boast |  |  |  |  | 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:language:052-sarcasm-hyperbole-and-understatement-side-by-side.lesson:6`.

**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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