--- title: A fact can be checked; an opinion is what someone thinks, and opinio… — Too-good-to-be-true offers, online scams and che… · tree and pragmatics description: A fact can be checked; an opinion is what someone thinks, and opinions should not be passed off as facts. Who acts: opinion. A sentence of the lesson «Too-good-to-be-true offers, online scams and checking the news» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the prag --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/314-too-good-offers-scams-and-checking-news/19/) [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/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Too-good-to-be-true offers, online sca…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/314-too-good-offers-scams-and-checking-news/) / 19 # Too-good-to-be-true offers, online scams and checking the news, sentence 19 A fact can be checked; an opinion is what someone thinks, and opinions should not be passed off as facts. **Who acts:** opinion · **What happens:** check, be, think, not pass off · **To what, where:** fact, opinions This is a sentence of the lesson «Too-good-to-be-true offers, online scams and checking the news» 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 (opinion), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:314-too-good-offers-scams-and-checking-news.lesson:19 # text = A fact can be checked; an opinion is what someone thinks, and opinions should not be passed off as facts. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 314-too-good-offers-scams-and-checking-news.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 ; ; PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 7 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 opinion opinion NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 9 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 10 what what PRON WP PronType=Rel 8 nmod _ _ 11 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 12 nsubj _ _ 12 thinks think VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 15 opinions opinion NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nsubj:pass _ _ 16 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 17 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 19 advmod _ _ 18 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 19 aux:pass _ _ 19 passed pass VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 conj _ _ 20 off off ADP RP _ 19 compound:prt _ _ 21 as as ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 facts fact NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obl _ _ 23 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | 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 | **is a** | present | | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **think** *speech: other* | present | a opinion | | | | | | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **not** **pass off** | should · passive | | opinions | | | | as facts | vn spend\_time-104 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Duration as fact=Attribute | 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:314-too-good-offers-scams-and-checking-news.lesson:19`. **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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