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title: Mum: "He must have done it on a different sheet." The evidence says… — The brother who never does anything wrong: doubl… · tree and pragmatics
description: Mum: "He must have done it on a different sheet." The evidence says one thing, and Mum invents an excuse so her belief can stay. Who acts: He, evidence, Mum, belief. A sentence of the lesson «The brother who never does anything wrong: double standards at home» of the world course of Mova's primary s
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# The brother who never does anything wrong: double standards at home, sentence 1

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Mum: "He must have done it on a different sheet." The evidence says one thing, and Mum invents an excuse so her belief can stay.

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**Who acts:** He, evidence, Mum, belief · **What happens:** do, say, invent, stay, believe · **To what, where:** it, different sheet, one thing, excuse · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The brother who never does anything wrong: double standards at home» of the world 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 (He, evidence, Mum, belief), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:165-the-brother-who-never-does-anything-wrong-double-standards.lesson:1
# text = Mum: "He must have done it on a different sheet." The evidence says one thing, and Mum invents an excuse so her belief can stay.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 165-the-brother-who-never-does-anything-wrong-double-standards.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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2
1	Mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
3	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	_
4	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
5	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	aux	_	_
7	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	1	appos	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	sheet	sheet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
14	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=17:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_
15	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	evidence	evidence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
18	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
19	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=17:punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	Mum	Mum	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=23:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
23	invents	invent	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
24	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	excuse	excuse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
27	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	belief	belief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
29	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	stay	stay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	advcl	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=1: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 | **do** *in a quote* | must · perfect | He | it |  | a different sheet |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the evidence | one thing |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent thing=Topic |
| 3 | **invent** | present | Mum | a excuse |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent excuse=Result |
| 4 | **stay** | can | Mum's belief |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **believe** |  | Mum |  |  |  |  |  | nom belief «cognition transitive»: poss=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): R2-punct-next ×1, R6-punct-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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