--- title: A fact can be checked and proved; an opinion is what someone thinks… — Reading non-fiction: recount, instructions, report · tree and pragmatics description: A fact can be checked and proved; an opinion is what someone thinks or feels. Who acts: opinion, someone. A sentence of the lesson «Reading non-fiction: recount, instructions, report» of the english course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/23-reading-non-fiction-recount-instructions-report/30/) [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/) / [English](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/) / [Reading non-fiction: recount, instruct…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/23-reading-non-fiction-recount-instructions-report/) / 30 # Reading non-fiction: recount, instructions, report, sentence 30 A fact can be checked and proved; an opinion is what someone thinks or feels. **Who acts:** opinion, someone · **What happens:** check, prove, be, think, feel · **To what, where:** fact This is a sentence of the lesson «Reading non-fiction: recount, instructions, report» of the english 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 (opinion, 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:30 # text = A fact can be checked and proved; an opinion is what someone thinks or feels. # 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): no change 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 fact fact NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj:pass _ _ 3 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 4 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 5 aux:pass _ _ 5 checked check VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 proved prove VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 conj _ _ 8 ; ; PUNCT : _ 5 punct _ _ 9 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 opinion opinion NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 11 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ _ 12 what what PRON WP PronType=Rel 5 parataxis _ _ 13 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 14 nsubj _ _ 14 thinks think VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 acl:relcl _ _ 15 or or CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 feels feel VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 17 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **check** | can · passive | | a fact | | | | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 2 | **prove** | participle | | | | | | | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is a** | present | a opinion | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **think** *speech: other* | present | someone | | | | | | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **feel** | present | someone *not said here* | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | 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:30`. **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. 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