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title: Count first, then speak: "You were late today" is fair and true. — The brother who never does anything wrong: doubl… · tree and pragmatics
description: Count first, then speak: "You were late today" is fair and true. Who acts: you, late. 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 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The brother who never does anything wrong: double standards at home, sentence 7

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Count first, then speak: "You were late today" is fair and true.

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**Who acts:** you, late · **What happens:** count, speak, be · **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 (you, late), 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:7
# text = Count first, then speak: "You were late today" is fair and true.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1
1	Count	count	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	1	advmod	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
5	speak	speak	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	_
8	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
10	late	late	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	nsubj	_	_
11	today	today	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl:unmarked	_	_
12	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=11:punct
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	parataxis	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	conj	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	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 | **count** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | first *property* | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **speak** *speech: other* | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  | then |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | past | You |  |  |  | today | late *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | present | late |  |  |  |  | fair *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **be** |  | late *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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:world:165-the-brother-who-never-does-anything-wrong-double-standards.lesson:7`.

**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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