a predicate expressing a pretense event. Example: in Ira pretended that the guests had already left, the proposition that the guests had already left is presented as true in an alternative reality from the shared beliefs of the interlocutors (or, for that matter, Ira). There is a strong implicature that the proposition does not hold in reality (that is, the shared beliefs of the interlocutors). (Section 18.2.2)