--- title: If something big is true, many trusted news sites report it; if only… — Politicians and promises, as the news reports them · tree and pragmatics description: If something big is true, many trusted news sites report it; if only one strange account has it, be careful. Who acts: something, many trusted news sites, one strange account, you. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (something, many trusted news sites, one strange account, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:442-politicians-and-promises-as-the-news-reports-them.lesson:37 # text = If something big is true, many trusted news sites report it; if only one strange account has it, be careful. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 442-politicians-and-promises-as-the-news-reports-them.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 If if SCONJ IN _ 5 mark _ _ 2 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 5 nsubj _ _ 3 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 5 true true ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 advcl _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 7 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 8 trusted trust VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 10 amod _ _ 9 news news NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 sites site NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nsubj _ _ 11 report report VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 12 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 obj _ _ 13 ; ; PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 14 if if SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 15 only only ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 16 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 18 nummod _ _ 17 strange strange ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 account account NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 19 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 20 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 obj _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 22 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 23 cop _ _ 23 careful careful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 24 . . PUNCT . _ 23 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | something | | | | | true *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **trust** | participle | | | | | | | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **report** | present | many trusted news sites | computer | | | | | vn prosecute-33.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | | 4 | **have** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | one strange account | computer | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | | 5 | **is** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | careful *property* | tree rules | 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:442-politicians-and-promises-as-the-news-reports-them.lesson:37`. **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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