--- title: And reports should be facts, things that can be checked, not opinion… — Reading non-fiction: recount, instructions, report · tree and pragmatics description: And reports should be facts, things that can be checked, not opinions, which are what someone thinks. Who acts: reports, opinions, someone. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (reports, opinions, someone), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:english:023-reading-non-fiction-recount-instructions-report.lesson:18 # text = And reports should be facts, things that can be checked, not opinions, which are what someone thinks. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = english # lesson = 023-reading-non-fiction-recount-instructions-report.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 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 2 reports report NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 3 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 4 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 5 cop _ _ 5 facts fact NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 7 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 appos _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 8 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 11 nsubj:pass _ _ 9 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 10 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 11 aux:pass _ _ 11 checked check VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 acl:relcl _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 14 advmod _ _ 14 opinions opinion NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 conj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 18 nsubj _ _ 17 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 cop _ _ 18 what what PRON WP PronType=Rel 14 acl:relcl _ _ 19 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 20 nsubj _ _ 20 thinks think VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 acl:relcl _ _ 21 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | should | reports | facts and opinions | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **check** | can · passive | | things | | | | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 3 | **is a** | present | opinions | facts and opinions | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **think** *speech: other* | present | someone | | | | | | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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. **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:english:023-reading-non-fiction-recount-instructions-report.lesson:18`. **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. **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. 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