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title: A fact can be checked and proved, like the Earth going around the Su… — Staying safe online and checking what you see · tree and pragmatics
description: A fact can be checked and proved, like the Earth going around the Sun; an opinion is what someone thinks or likes, like which season is best. Who acts: Earth, opinion, someone, season. A sentence of the lesson «Staying safe online and checking what you see» of the everyday course of Mova's primary s
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# Staying safe online and checking what you see, sentence 25

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A fact can be checked and proved, like the Earth going around the Sun; an opinion is what someone thinks or likes, like which season is best.

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**Who acts:** Earth, opinion, someone, season · **What happens:** check, prove, go, be, think, like · **To what, where:** fact, Sun

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Staying safe online and checking what you see» of the everyday 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 (Earth, opinion, someone, season), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:283-safe-online-and-checking-what-you-see.lesson:25
# text = A fact can be checked and proved, like the Earth going around the Sun; an opinion is what someone thinks or likes, like which season is best.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 283-safe-online-and-checking-what-you-see.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	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	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	like	like	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	conj	_	_
13	around	around	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Sun	Sun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	opinion	opinion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
19	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
20	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	parataxis	_	_
21	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	22	nsubj	_	_
22	thinks	think	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	_
23	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	likes	like	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
26	like	like	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=30:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
27	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	28	det	_	_
28	season	season	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
29	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
30	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	24	parataxis	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **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 | **go** | gerund | the Earth |  |  | the Sun |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme around sun=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **is a** | present | a opinion |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **think** *speech: other* | present | someone |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **like** | present | someone *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 7 | **is** | present | which season |  |  |  |  | good *property* | tree rules |

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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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**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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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