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title: "It's on TikTok, so it must be true." His mum grabs the phone: "No! — "It's on TikTok so it's true" and the comment se… · tree and pragmatics
description: "It's on TikTok, so it must be true." His mum grabs the phone: "No! Who acts: phone, mum. A sentence of the lesson «"It's on TikTok so it's true" and the comment section» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# "It's on TikTok so it's true" and the comment section, sentence 1

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"It's on TikTok, so it must be true." His mum grabs the phone: "No!

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**Who acts:** phone, mum · **What happens:** be, grab · **To what, where:** TikTok, phone · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «"It's on TikTok so it's true" and the comment section» 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 (phone, mum), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:175-its-on-tiktok-so-its-true-and-the-comment-section.lesson:1
# text = "It's on TikTok, so it must be true." His mum grabs the phone: "No!
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 175-its-on-tiktok-so-its-true-and-the-comment-section.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, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	_
2	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	TikTok	TikTok	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	so	so	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
9	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	cop	_	_
11	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	parataxis	_	_
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
13	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=16:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:":_
14	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	grabs	grab	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	phone	phone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
20	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	_
21	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	16	discourse	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:discourse
22	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: disagree
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | phone |  |  | TikTok |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | must | phone |  |  |  |  | true *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **grab** | present | TikTok's mum | the phone |  |  |  |  | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent phone=Theme |

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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:175-its-on-tiktok-so-its-true-and-the-comment-section.lesson:1`.

**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, R8-pos-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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