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title: Checking whether other trusted sources report the same story helps y… — Fake websites, fake news and bots, skipping a le… · tree and pragmatics
description: Checking whether other trusted sources report the same story helps you spot fake news. Who acts: other trusted sources, Checking, you. A sentence of the lesson «Fake websites, fake news and bots, skipping a lesson, keeping surprises and being trusted» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school 
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# Fake websites, fake news and bots, skipping a lesson, keeping surprises and being trusted, sentence 12

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Checking whether other trusted sources report the same story helps you spot fake news.

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**Who acts:** other trusted sources, Checking, you · **What happens:** check, trust, report, help, spot · **To what, where:** same story, you, fake news

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Fake websites, fake news and bots, skipping a lesson, keeping surprises and being trusted» 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 (other trusted sources, Checking, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:335-fake-websites-fake-news-bots-skipping-class-surprises-and-trust.lesson:12
# text = Checking whether other trusted sources report the same story helps you spot fake news.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 335-fake-websites-fake-news-bots-skipping-class-surprises-and-trust.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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Checking	check	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	csubj	_	_
2	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
3	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	trusted	trust	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	amod	_	_
5	sources	source	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	report	report	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	ccomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=1:advcl
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:nsubj
10	helps	help	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	spot	spot	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
13	fake	fake	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	news	news	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	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 | **check** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **trust** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **report** | present | other trusted sources | the same story |  |  |  |  | vn prosecute-33.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Patient |
| 4 | **help** | present | Checking | you |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary clause=Theme |
| 5 | **spot** | infinitive | you *not said here* | fake news |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme news=Destination |

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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:335-fake-websites-fake-news-bots-skipping-class-surprises-and-trust.lesson:12`.

**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): R5-strong ×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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