--- title: If big news is true, many trusted news places report it; if only one… — The check that settles it · tree and pragmatics description: If big news is true, many trusted news places report it; if only one odd page does, it is probably fake. Who acts: big news, many trusted news places, one odd page, page. 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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 (big news, many trusted news places, one odd page, page), 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:38 # text = If big news is true, many trusted news places report it; if only one odd page does, it is probably fake. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 If if SCONJ IN _ 5 mark _ _ 2 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 news news NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 5 true true ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 advcl _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 5 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 places place NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nsubj _ _ 11 report report VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 obj _ _ 13 ; ; PUNCT : _ 24 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 odd odd ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 page page NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 19 does do VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 advcl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=24:advcl|HaikuPos=AUX:VBZ:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 21 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 22 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 cop _ _ 23 probably probably ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 24 fake fake ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:conj 25 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | big news | | | | | true *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **trust** | participle | | | | | | | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **report** | present | many trusted news places | memory | | | | | vn prosecute-33.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | | 4 | **do** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | one odd page | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **is** | present | page | | | | | fake, probably *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:451-the-check-that-settles-it.lesson:38`. **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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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/). - ← previous: [The check that settles it, 37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/451-the-check-that-settles-it/37/) - next →: [The check that settles it, 39](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/451-the-check-that-settles-it/39/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/451-the-check-that-settles-it/)