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title: Good checking: use Wikipedia to start and then check the references… — Facts, opinions, clickbait and saying no to dares · tree and pragmatics
description: Good checking: use Wikipedia to start and then check the references at the bottom; notice that many accounts repeating the same words may be bots; and wait for trusted news before believing that a famous person has died. Who acts: many accounts, famous person. A sentence of the lesson «Facts, opinio
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# Facts, opinions, clickbait and saying no to dares, sentence 4

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Good checking: use Wikipedia to start and then check the references at the bottom; notice that many accounts repeating the same words may be bots; and wait for trusted news before believing that a famous person has died.

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**Who acts:** many accounts, famous person · **What happens:** use, start, check, notice, repeat, be · **To what, where:** Wikipedia, references, bottom, same words, bots · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (many accounts, famous person), 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:4
# text = Good checking: use Wikipedia to start and then check the references at the bottom; notice that many accounts repeating the same words may be bots; and wait for trusted news before believing that a famous person has died.
# 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	checking	check	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
4	use	use	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
5	Wikipedia	Wikipedia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	start	start	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	10	advmod	_	_
10	check	check	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	references	reference	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	bottom	bottom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
17	notice	notice	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
18	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
19	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	accounts	account	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nsubj	_	_
21	repeating	repeat	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	20	acl	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
25	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
26	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	cop	_	_
27	bots	bot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	ccomp	_	_
28	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	wait	wait	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=17:conj
31	for	for	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	trusted	trust	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	33	amod	_	_
33	news	news	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
34	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
35	believing	believe	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	30	advcl	_	_
36	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	41	mark	_	_
37	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
38	famous	famous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nsubj	_	_
40	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	41	aux	_	_
41	died	die	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	35	ccomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=35:advcl
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=1: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 | **use** | infinitive |  | Wikipedia |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wikipedia=Patient |
| 2 | **start** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 3 | **check** | infinitive |  | the references |  | the bottom | then |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reference=Theme |
| 4 | **notice** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **repeat** | gerund | many accounts *not said here* | the same words |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Eventuality |
| 6 | **is a** | may | many accounts | bots |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **wait** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | for trusted news | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 8 | **trust** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 9 | **believe** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 10 | **die** | present · perfect | a famous person |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

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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:4`.

**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): R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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