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title: Every fact comes from somewhere, and a good checker asks four questi… — Where did you read that? Checking sources · tree and pragmatics
description: Every fact comes from somewhere, and a good checker asks four questions: Who says it? Who acts: fact, good checker, four questions. A sentence of the lesson «Where did you read that? Checking sources» of the myths course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
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# Where did you read that? Checking sources, sentence 1

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Every fact comes from somewhere, and a good checker asks four questions: Who says it?

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**Who acts:** fact, good checker, four questions · **What happens:** come, ask, say · **To what, where:** four questions, checker · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (fact, good checker, four questions), 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:1
# text = Every fact comes from somewhere, and a good checker asks four questions: Who says it?
# 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	Every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	fact	fact	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	somewhere	somewhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	3	obl	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=3:punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	checker	checker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	asks	ask	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
12	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	questions	question	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
14	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
15	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
16	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	parataxis	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=16:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: other
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed form=other

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | present | every fact |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from somewhere=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | a good checker | four questions |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent question=Recipient |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | four questions | checker |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic |

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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:myths:028-where-did-you-read-that-checking-sources.lesson:1`.

**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): R2-punct-next ×1, R6-punct-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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