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title: "It was reported that" separates what we know ourselves from what we… — In the news: tricked bots, real discoveries, car… · tree and pragmatics
description: "It was reported that" separates what we know ourselves from what we heard. Who acts: we. A sentence of the lesson «In the news: tricked bots, real discoveries, careful words» of the ai course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# In the news: tricked bots, real discoveries, careful words, sentence 17

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"It was reported that" separates what we know ourselves from what we heard.

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**Who acts:** we · **What happens:** report, know, hear · **To what, where:** fairness, separates

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This is a sentence of the lesson «In the news: tricked bots, real discoveries, careful words» of the ai 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 (we), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:ai:023-news-tricked-bots-discoveries.lesson:17
# text = "It was reported that" separates what we know ourselves from what we heard.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = ai
# lesson = 023-news-tricked-bots-discoveries.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): no change
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	_
2	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	reported	report	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	_
7	separates	separate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	ccomp	_	_
8	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	10	obj	_	_
9	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
11	ourselves	ourselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	10	obj	_	_
12	from	from	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	10	obl	_	_
14	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **report** *in a quote* | past · passive |  | fairness |  |  |  |  | vn prosecute-33.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **know** | present | we | separates |  | separates |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **hear** | past | we |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer |

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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:ai:023-news-tricked-bots-discoveries.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): no change. **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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