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title: Three questions settle most claims: How do you know? — The check that settles it · tree and pragmatics
description: Three questions settle most claims: How do you know? Who acts: Three questions, you. A sentence of the lesson «The check that settles it» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The check that settles it, sentence 31

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Three questions settle most claims: How do you know?

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**Who acts:** Three questions, you · **What happens:** settle, know · **To what, where:** most claims

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The check that settles it» 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 (Three questions, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:451-the-check-that-settles-it.lesson:31
# text = Three questions settle most claims: How do you know?
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 451-the-check-that-settles-it.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	Three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	questions	question	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	settle	settle	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	5	amod	_	_
5	claims	claim	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
7	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	10	advmod	_	_
8	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **settle** | present | Three questions | most claims |  |  |  |  | vn odge-46-1 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme claim=Location |
| 2 | **know** | present · do-support | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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**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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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