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title: When a mate says "everyone knows", ask "what did they dig up?" and "… — Ancient times and famous stories · tree and pragmatics
description: When a mate says "everyone knows", ask "what did they dig up?" and "who first told it?"; and if they turn out to be half right, say so. Who acts: mate, everyone, you, frogs. A sentence of the lesson «Ancient times and famous stories» of the myths course of Mova's primary school with its dependency t
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# Ancient times and famous stories, sentence 5

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When a mate says "everyone knows", ask "what did they dig up?" and "who first told it?"; and if they turn out to be half right, say so.

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**Who acts:** mate, everyone, you, frogs · **What happens:** say, know, ask, dig up, tell, turn out · **To what, where:** mate · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Ancient times and famous stories» 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 (mate, everyone, you, frogs), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:myths:021-ancient-times-and-famous-stories.lesson:5
# text = When a mate says "everyone knows", ask "what did they dig up?" and "who first told it?"; and if they turn out to be half right, say so.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = myths
# lesson = 021-ancient-times-and-famous-stories.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	4	mark	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	_
6	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	7	nsubj	_	_
7	knows	know	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
8	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	ask	ask	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
11	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	_
12	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	15	obj	_	_
13	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	dig	dig	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	ccomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:parataxis
16	up	up	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	_
17	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
18	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
20	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	_
21	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj	_	_
22	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	23	advmod	_	_
23	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	_
26	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	23	punct	_	_
27	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=10:punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
29	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
30	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	turn	turn	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	38	advcl	_	_
32	out	out	ADP	RP	_	31	compound:prt	_	_
33	to	to	PART	TO	_	36	mark	_	_
34	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	cop	_	_
35	half	half	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	36	advmod	_	_
36	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	xcomp	_	_
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
38	say	say	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
39	so	so	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed form=imp, act=request

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | a mate |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **know** *in a quote* | present | everyone |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **dig up** *in a quote* | past · do-support | frogs *= frog* |  |  |  |  |  | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent what=Theme |
| 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past |  |  | mate |  |  | first *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient |
| 6 | **turn out** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | frogs *= frog* |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **is** | to-infinitive | frogs *= frog* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | half, right *property* | tree rules |
| 8 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |

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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:021-ancient-times-and-famous-stories.lesson:5`.

**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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1. **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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