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title: Secret tunnels between old buildings are a very common legend, and t… — School legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Secret tunnels between old buildings are a very common legend, and they almost never turn out to be real; old maps and local history groups can help you check. Who acts: Secret tunnels, results, old maps, you. A sentence of the lesson «School legends» of the myths course of Mova's primary school wit
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# School legends, sentence 16

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Secret tunnels between old buildings are a very common legend, and they almost never turn out to be real; old maps and local history groups can help you check.

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**Who acts:** Secret tunnels, results, old maps, you · **What happens:** be, not turn out, help, check · **To what, where:** common legend, you

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This is a sentence of the lesson «School legends» 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 (Secret tunnels, results, old maps, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:myths:024-school-legends.lesson:16
# text = Secret tunnels between old buildings are a very common legend, and they almost never turn out to be real; old maps and local history groups can help you check.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = myths
# lesson = 024-school-legends.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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2
1	Secret	secret	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	tunnels	tunnel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
3	between	between	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	buildings	building	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
6	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	very	very	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	legend	legend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
13	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
14	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:advmod
15	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
16	turn	turn	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=10:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
17	out	out	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=16:compound:prt|HaikuPos=PART:RP:_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
19	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	cop	_	_
20	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:ccomp
21	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
22	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	maps	map	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nsubj	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
25	local	local	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
26	history	history	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	groups	group	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	conj	_	_
28	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	parataxis	_	_
30	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	29	obj	_	_
31	check	check	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	xcomp	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
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## 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 | **is a** | present | Secret tunnels between old buildings | a common legend |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **turn out** | present | results *= result* |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | to-infinitive | results *= result* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | real *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **help** | can | old maps and local history groups | you |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary clause=Theme |
| 5 | **check** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: 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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**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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. **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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