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title: «Sources close to» someone are people a newspaper does not name, so… — Olympiad: what is really going on ★★★ · tree and pragmatics
description: «Sources close to» someone are people a newspaper does not name, so their claims cannot be checked by the reader. Who acts: Sources, newspaper, reader. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: what is really going on ★★★» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the 
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# Olympiad: what is really going on ★★★, sentence 17

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«Sources close to» someone are people a newspaper does not name, so their claims cannot be checked by the reader.

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**Who acts:** Sources, newspaper, reader · **What happens:** be, not name, not check, claim · **To what, where:** people, claims

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: what is really going on ★★★» of the adult life 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 (Sources, newspaper, reader), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:adult-life:061-olympiad-what-is-really-going-on.lesson:17
# text = «Sources close to» someone are people a newspaper does not name, so their claims cannot be checked by the reader.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = adult-life
# lesson = 061-olympiad-what-is-really-going-on.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, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	_
2	Sources	source	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
3	close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
6	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	3	obl	_	_
7	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	newspaper	newspaper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
11	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
13	name	name	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	acl:relcl	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=8:acl:relcl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
15	so	so	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
16	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	claims	claim	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
19	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
20	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	checked	check	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:advcl
22	by	by	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	reader	reader	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | **is a** | present | Sources | people |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **name** | present · do-support | a newspaper | people *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **check** | can · passive | the reader | Sources's claims |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
| 4 | **claim** |  | Sources *= source* |  |  |  |  |  | nom claim «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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:adult-life:061-olympiad-what-is-really-going-on.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, R8-pos-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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