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title: A comment liked 3,000 times ("my uncle works there") is still just o… — "It's on TikTok so it's true" and the comment se… · tree and pragmatics
description: A comment liked 3,000 times ("my uncle works there") is still just one stranger's say-so. Who acts: uncle, comment. 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 claus
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# "It's on TikTok so it's true" and the comment section, sentence 5

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A comment liked 3,000 times ("my uncle works there") is still just one stranger's say-so.

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**Who acts:** uncle, comment · **What happens:** like, work, be · **To what, where:** comment, say · **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 (uncle, comment), 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:5
# text = A comment liked 3,000 times ("my uncle works there") is still just one stranger's say-so.
# 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, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	comment	comment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
3	liked	like	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	3,000	3000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl:unmarked	_	_
6	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	10	punct	_	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	_
8	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	uncle	uncle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	works	work	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
11	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	10	advmod	_	_
12	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
13	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	10	punct	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
15	still	still	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
16	just	just	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:nummod
18	stranger	stranger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod:poss	_	_
19	's	's	PART	POS	_	18	case	_	_
20	say	say	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=20:punct
22	so	so	ADV	RB	_	20	compound	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: evaluate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: changed act=evaluate, polarity=neg, voice=narrator

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **like** | participle |  | a comment *not said here* |  |  | time |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **work** *in a quote* | present | my uncle |  |  | there |  |  | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | present | a comment | one stranger's say |  |  | still |  | 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:175-its-on-tiktok-so-its-true-and-the-comment-section.lesson:5`.

**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, 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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