--- title: A good checker asks: is this a fact that can be checked, or someone'… — Too-good-to-be-true offers, online scams and che… · tree and pragmatics description: A good checker asks: is this a fact that can be checked, or someone's opinion? Who acts: good checker, this, someone. 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 pragmatics --- [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/7/) [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/) / 7 # Too-good-to-be-true offers, online scams and checking the news, sentence 7 A good checker asks: is this a fact that can be checked, or someone's opinion? **Who acts:** good checker, this, someone · **What happens:** ask, be, check, opine · **To what, where:** fact · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (good checker, this, someone), 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:7 # text = A good checker asks: is this a fact that can be checked, or someone's opinion? # 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 checker checker NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 asks ask VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 : : PUNCT : _ 4 punct _ _ 6 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 7 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 9 nsubj _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 fact fact NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 ccomp _ _ 10 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 13 nsubj:pass _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:mark|HaikuPos=SCONJ:IN:_ 11 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 12 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 13 aux:pass _ _ 13 checked check VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 acl:relcl _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 15 or or CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=9:cc 16 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 18 nmod:poss _ _ 17 's 's PART POS _ 16 case _ _ 18 opinion opinion NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 conj _ _ 19 ? ? PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | a good checker | | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is a** | present | this | a fact or someone's opinion | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **check** | can · passive | | a fact or someone's opinion | | | | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 4 | **opine** | | someone | | | | | | nom opinion «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | 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:7`. **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): R1-cc-next ×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. 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