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title: Some hold a bit of truth, some none, and you can test them with a di… — Weather, lightning and storms · tree and pragmatics
description: Some hold a bit of truth, some none, and you can test them with a diary and old records. Who acts: Some, you. A sentence of the lesson «Weather, lightning and storms» of the myths course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Weather, lightning and storms, sentence 2

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Some hold a bit of truth, some none, and you can test them with a diary and old records.

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**Who acts:** Some, you · **What happens:** hold, test · **To what, where:** bit, sayings

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Weather, lightning and storms» of the myths 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 (Some, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:myths:015-weather-lightning-and-storms.lesson:2
# text = Some hold a bit of truth, some none, and you can test them with a diary and old records.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = myths
# lesson = 015-weather-lightning-and-storms.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	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	nsubj	_	_
2	hold	hold	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	bit	bit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	truth	truth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	9	det	_	_
9	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	4	conj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	test	test	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
15	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	diary	diary	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	records	record	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **hold** | present | Some | a bit of truth |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bit=Theme |
| 2 | **test** | can | you | sayings *= saying* |  |  |  | with a diary and old records | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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**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:myths:015-weather-lightning-and-storms.lesson:2`.

**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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