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title: So the rule is simple: laugh, then check. — Memes, clips and jokes about politicians · tree and pragmatics
description: So the rule is simple: laugh, then check. Who acts: rule. A sentence of the lesson «Memes, clips and jokes about politicians» of the politics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Memes, clips and jokes about politicians, sentence 5

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So the rule is simple: laugh, then check.

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**Who acts:** rule · **What happens:** be, laugh, check

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Memes, clips and jokes about politicians» of the politics 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 (rule), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:politics:013-memes-clips-and-jokes-about-politicians.lesson:5
# text = So the rule is simple: laugh, then check.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = politics
# lesson = 013-memes-clips-and-jokes-about-politicians.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): R6-punct-agree ×1
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	rule	rule	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	simple	simple	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
7	laugh	laugh	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=5:punct
9	then	then	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	check	check	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **is** | present | the rule |  |  |  |  | simple *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **laugh** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **check** | infinitive |  |  |  |  | then |  | 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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**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:politics:013-memes-clips-and-jokes-about-politicians.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): R6-punct-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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