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title: Use Wikipedia as a start and check its references, because anyone ca… — Facts, opinions, clickbait and saying no to dares · tree and pragmatics
description: Use Wikipedia as a start and check its references, because anyone can edit it. Who acts: you, anyone, start. A sentence of the lesson «Facts, opinions, clickbait and saying no to dares» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Facts, opinions, clickbait and saying no to dares, sentence 13

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Use Wikipedia as a start and check its references, because anyone can edit it.

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**Who acts:** you, anyone, start · **What happens:** use, check, edit, refer · **To what, where:** Wikipedia, references, start

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Facts, opinions, clickbait and saying no to dares» 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 (you, anyone, start), 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:13
# text = Use Wikipedia as a start and check its references, because anyone can edit it.
# 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): no change
1	Use	use	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	Wikipedia	Wikipedia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
3	as	as	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	start	start	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	check	check	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
8	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	references	reference	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
12	anyone	anyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	14	nsubj	_	_
13	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	edit	edit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	advcl	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | imperative | you *not said here* | Wikipedia |  |  |  | as a start | vn spend\_time-104 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent wikipedia=Duration as start=Attribute |
| 2 | **check** | infinitive | you *not said here* | start's references |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reference=Theme |
| 3 | **edit** | can | anyone | start |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **refer** |  | start |  |  |  |  |  | nom reference «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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**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:13`.

**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.

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

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