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title: Cats make many sounds, and one may sound like a word to us, but cats… — "It's on TikTok so it's true" and the comment se… · tree and pragmatics
description: Cats make many sounds, and one may sound like a word to us, but cats don't speak English; amazing claims need strong proof. Who acts: Cats, one, amazing claims. 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 depe
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# "It's on TikTok so it's true" and the comment section, sentence 17

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Cats make many sounds, and one may sound like a word to us, but cats don't speak English; amazing claims need strong proof.

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**Who acts:** Cats, one, amazing claims · **What happens:** make, sound, not speak, need · **To what, where:** many sounds, us, English, strong proof · **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 (Cats, one, amazing claims), 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:17
# text = Cats make many sounds, and one may sound like a word to us, but cats don't speak English; amazing claims need strong proof.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Cats	cat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	sounds	sound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nsubj	_	_
8	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	sound	sound	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
10	like	like	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	obl	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
17	cats	cat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
18	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
20	speak	speak	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
21	English	English	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
22	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
23	amazing	amazing	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	claims	claim	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
25	need	need	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj
26	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	proof	proof	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: pos
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present | Cats | many sounds |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sound=Product |
| 2 | **sound** | may | one |  | us |  |  | like a word | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ PP.experiencer»: agent=Stimulus to we=Experiencer |
| 3 | **not** **speak** *speech: other* | present · do-support | cats | English |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **need** | present | amazing claims | strong proof |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot proof=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:17`.

**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): R7-rel-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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