--- title: A fact can be checked («Paris is the capital of France»); an opinion… — Facts, opinions, clickbait and saying no to dares · tree and pragmatics description: A fact can be checked («Paris is the capital of France»); an opinion is what someone thinks («Pizza is the best food»). Who acts: Paris, opinion, someone, Pizza. 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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 (Paris, opinion, someone, Pizza), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:284-facts-opinions-and-saying-no-to-dares.lesson:0 # text = A fact can be checked («Paris is the capital of France»); an opinion is what someone thinks («Pizza is the best food»). # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 284-facts-opinions-and-saying-no-to-dares.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 ×4, 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 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 11 punct _ _ 7 « « PUNCT `` _ 11 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=8:punct 8 Paris Paris PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 9 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 capital capital NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 parataxis _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 France France PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nmod _ _ 14 » » PUNCT '' _ 11 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=13:punct 15 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 11 punct _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT , _ 5 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 _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:advcl:relcl 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 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 29 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=22:punct 24 « « PUNCT `` _ 29 punct _ _ 25 Pizza Pizza PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 26 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 cop _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 best good ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 29 amod _ _ 29 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 parataxis _ _ 30 » » PUNCT '' _ 29 punct _ _ 31 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 29 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=22:punct 32 . . 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 | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | Paris | the capital | | | | of France | tree rules | | 3 | **is a** | present | a opinion | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **think** *speech: other* | present | someone | | | | | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 5 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | Pizza | the best food | | | | | tree rules | 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:everyday:284-facts-opinions-and-saying-no-to-dares.lesson:0`. **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 ×4, 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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