---
title: When you read a claim you cannot check, you say "it was reported tha… — Who you are: honest about being an AI · tree and pragmatics
description: When you read a claim you cannot check, you say "it was reported that" or "I can't check this". Who acts: you, I. A sentence of the lesson «Who you are: honest about being an AI» of the ai course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/28-who-you-are-honest-ai/1/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [AI](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/) / [Who you are: honest about being an AI](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/28-who-you-are-honest-ai/) / 1

# Who you are: honest about being an AI, sentence 1

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
When you read a claim you cannot check, you say "it was reported that" or "I can't check this".

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** you, I · **What happens:** read, not check, say, report · **To what, where:** claim, this · **Speech:** someone speaks here

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of the lesson «Who you are: honest about being an AI» 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 (you, I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:ai:028-who-you-are-honest-ai.lesson:1
# text = When you read a claim you cannot check, you say "it was reported that" or "I can't check this".
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = ai
# lesson = 028-who-you-are-honest-ai.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): R6-punct-agree ×3
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	read	read	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	claim	claim	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
7	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
9	check	check	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	acl:relcl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3:punct
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=12:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	reported	report	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	ccomp	_	_
17	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
18	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=24:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_
19	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
20	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	_
21	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
22	ca	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	24	advmod	_	_
24	check	check	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	conj	_	_
25	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	24	obj	_	_
26	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	24	punct	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .note -->
No stored speech act for this sentence.

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **read** | past | you | a claim |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent claim=Topic |
| 2 | **not** **check** | can | you | a claim *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent claim=Theme |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **report** *in a quote* | past · passive |  | claim |  |  |  |  | vn prosecute-33.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 5 | **not** **check** *in a quote* | can | I | this |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Theme |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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:028-who-you-are-honest-ai.lesson:1`.

**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): R6-punct-agree ×3. **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/).

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [Who you are: honest about being an AI, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/28-who-you-are-honest-ai/0/)
- next →: [Who you are: honest about being an AI, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/28-who-you-are-honest-ai/2/)
- ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/28-who-you-are-honest-ai/)

