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title: If it sounds too good to be true, it usually is. — "It's natural so it's healthy" and the miracle c… · tree and pragmatics
description: If it sounds too good to be true, it usually is. Who acts: cream. A sentence of the lesson «"It's natural so it's healthy" and the miracle cure» 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 natural so it's healthy" and the miracle cure, sentence 3

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If it sounds too good to be true, it usually is.

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**Who acts:** cream · **What happens:** sound, be

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This is a sentence of the lesson «"It's natural so it's healthy" and the miracle cure» 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 (cream), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:179-its-natural-so-its-healthy-and-the-miracle-cure.lesson:3
# text = If it sounds too good to be true, it usually is.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 179-its-natural-so-its-healthy-and-the-miracle-cure.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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	sounds	sound	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root
4	too	too	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
7	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	cop	_	_
8	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	advcl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:parataxis
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3: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 | **sound** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | cream |  |  |  |  | good *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **is** | to-infinitive | cream *not said here* |  |  |  |  | true *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** | present | cream |  |  |  |  | usually *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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:179-its-natural-so-its-healthy-and-the-miracle-cure.lesson:3`.

**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 ×2, 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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