--- title: "My uncle works there" in a comment is hearsay: a claim nobody can c… — "It's on TikTok so it's true" and the comment se… · tree and pragmatics description: "My uncle works there" in a comment is hearsay: a claim nobody can check. Who acts: uncle, comment, nobody. 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/175-its-on-tiktok-so-its-true-and-the-comment-section/14/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/) / ["It's on TikTok so it's true" and the…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/175-its-on-tiktok-so-its-true-and-the-comment-section/) / 14 # "It's on TikTok so it's true" and the comment section, sentence 14 "My uncle works there" in a comment is hearsay: a claim nobody can check. **Who acts:** uncle, comment, nobody · **What happens:** work, be, check · **To what, where:** hearsay · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (uncle, comment, nobody), 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:14 # text = "My uncle works there" in a comment is hearsay: a claim nobody can check. # 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 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ _ 2 My my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 3 nmod:poss _ _ 3 uncle uncle NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 works work VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 parataxis _ _ 5 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 4 advmod _ _ 6 " " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 comment comment NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 10 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 11 hearsay hearsay NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 12 : : PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:det 14 claim claim NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 15 nobody nobody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 17 nsubj _ _ 16 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 17 check check VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 parataxis _ _ 18 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed voice=narrator | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **work** *in a quote* | present | My uncle | | | there | | | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is a** | present | a comment | hearsay | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **check** | can | nobody | | | | | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=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:world:175-its-on-tiktok-so-its-true-and-the-comment-section.lesson:14`. **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. **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. 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