--- title: Finn holds up his tablet: "It says on a website, so it MUST be true!… — Where did you read that? Checking sources · tree and pragmatics description: Finn holds up his tablet: "It says on a website, so it MUST be true!" Isla waves Grandad's old encyclopaedia: "Nine planets, it's printed right here!" Both are trusting the container, not checking the claim. Who acts: Finn, tablet, Isla, Both. A sentence of the lesson «Where did you read that? Check --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/28-where-did-you-read-that-checking-sources/0/) [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/) / [Myths](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/) / [Where did you read that? Checking sour…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/28-where-did-you-read-that-checking-sources/) / 0 # Where did you read that? Checking sources, sentence 0 Finn holds up his tablet: "It says on a website, so it MUST be true!" Isla waves Grandad's old encyclopaedia: "Nine planets, it's printed right here!" Both are trusting the container, not checking the claim. **Who acts:** Finn, tablet, Isla, Both · **What happens:** hold up, say, be, wave, print, trust · **To what, where:** tablet, website, old encyclopaedia, container, claim · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Where did you read that? Checking sources» of the myths 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 (Finn, tablet, Isla, Both), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:myths:028-where-did-you-read-that-checking-sources.lesson:0 # text = Finn holds up his tablet: "It says on a website, so it MUST be true!" Isla waves Grandad's old encyclopaedia: "Nine planets, it's printed right here!" Both are trusting the container, not checking the claim. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = myths # lesson = 028-where-did-you-read-that-checking-sources.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 ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Finn Finn PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 2 holds hold VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 up up ADP RP _ 2 compound:prt _ _ 4 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 tablet tablet NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:obl 6 : : PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 7 " " PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ _ 8 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 10 on on ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 website website NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 14 so so ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 15 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 16 MUST must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 17 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 18 cop _ _ 18 true true ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:conj 19 ! ! PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ 20 " " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 21 Isla Isla PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 22 waves wave VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 23 Grandad Grandad PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 nmod:poss _ _ 24 's 's PART POS _ 23 case _ _ 25 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 encyclopaedia encyclopaedia NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 27 : : PUNCT : _ 30 punct _ _ 28 " " PUNCT `` _ 30 punct _ _ 29 Nine nine NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 30 nummod _ _ 30 planets planet NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 32 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj:pass _ _ 33 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 aux:pass _ _ 34 printed print VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 conj _ _ 35 right right ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 36 here here ADV RB PronType=Dem 34 advmod _ _ 37 ! ! PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ 38 " " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 39 Both both DET DT PronType=Tot 41 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=41:nsubj|HaikuPos=PRON:DT:PronType=Tot 40 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 41 aux _ _ 41 trusting trust VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 advcl _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 43 container container NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obj _ _ 44 , , PUNCT , _ 46 punct _ _ 45 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 46 advmod _ _ 46 checking check VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 41 conj _ _ 47 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 48 det _ _ 48 claim claim NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 obj _ _ 49 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hold up** | present | Finn | Finn's tablet | | | | Nine planets *obl* | vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot tablet=Theme | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present | tablet | | | a website | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is** *in a quote* | must | tablet | | | | | true *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **wave** | present | Isla | Grandad's old encyclopaedia | | | | | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent encyclopaedia=Patient | | 5 | **print** *in a quote* | present · passive | | tablet | | here | | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 6 | **trust** | present · progressive | Both | the container | | | | | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent container=Theme | | 7 | **not** **check** | gerund | Both *not said here* | the claim | | | | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent claim=Theme | 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:myths:028-where-did-you-read-that-checking-sources.lesson:0`. **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 ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2. **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: [Everyday sayings and grown-ups' rules, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/27-everyday-sayings-and-grown-ups-rules/18/) - next →: [Where did you read that? 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