--- title: Some grown-ups' rules are true, some half true and some false, so ea… — Everyday sayings and grown-ups' rules · tree and pragmatics description: Some grown-ups' rules are true, some half true and some false, so each one is worth checking on its own. Who acts: rules, some, one, grown ups. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rules, some, one, grown ups), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:myths:027-everyday-sayings-and-grown-ups-rules.lesson:18 # text = Some grown-ups' rules are true, some half true and some false, so each one is worth checking on its own. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = myths # lesson = 027-everyday-sayings-and-grown-ups-rules.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 ×4 1 Some some DET DT PronType=Ind 4 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:det 2 grown grow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 amod _ _ 3 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 4 punct _ _ 4 ups up NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nmod:poss _ _ 5 ' 's PART POS _ 4 case _ _ 6 rules rule NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ _ 7 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 8 true true ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 10 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 12 nsubj _ _ 11 half half ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac 12 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac 12 true true ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:parataxis 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 14 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 15 det _ _ 15 false false ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 conj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 17 so so ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 18 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 19 det _ _ 19 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 20 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 cop _ _ 21 worth worth ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:conj 22 checking check VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 21 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:ccomp 23 on on ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 25 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 obl _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **grow** | participle | | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **is** | present | some grown ups's rules | | | | | true *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **be** | | some | | | | | half *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **is** | present | each one | | | | | worth *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **check** | gerund | each one *not said here* | | | most's own | | | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on own=Location | | 6 | **rule** | | some grown ups | | | | | | nom rule «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent | 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. **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:027-everyday-sayings-and-grown-ups-rules.lesson:18`. **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 ×4. **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/). - ← previous: [Everyday sayings and grown-ups' rules, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/27-everyday-sayings-and-grown-ups-rules/17/) - next →: [Where did you read that? Checking sour…, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/28-where-did-you-read-that-checking-sources/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/27-everyday-sayings-and-grown-ups-rules/)