--- title: "Clinically proven" (tested on people) in an advert can mean a tiny… — Where did you read that? Checking sources · tree and pragmatics description: "Clinically proven" (tested on people) in an advert can mean a tiny test without fair comparison; ask who tested it, on how many people, and compared with what. 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 --- [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/10/) [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/) / 10 # Where did you read that? Checking sources, sentence 10 "Clinically proven" (tested on people) in an advert can mean a tiny test without fair comparison; ask who tested it, on how many people, and compared with what. **What happens:** prove, test, mean, ask, compare · **To what, where:** tiny test, test · **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: 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:10 # text = "Clinically proven" (tested on people) in an advert can mean a tiny test without fair comparison; ask who tested it, on how many people, and compared with what. # 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 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ _ 2 Clinically clinically ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 3 proven prove VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 14 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:nsubj 4 " " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ 5 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 6 punct _ _ 6 tested test VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 conj _ _ 7 on on ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ _ 9 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 6 punct _ _ 10 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 advert advert NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 13 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 14 mean mean VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 test test NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 18 without without ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 fair fair ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 comparison comparison NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 21 ; ; PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 22 ask ask VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 14 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:conj 23 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 24 nsubj _ _ 24 tested test VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 ccomp _ _ 25 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 obj _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 27 on on ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 28 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 29 advmod _ _ 29 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obl _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 33 compared compare VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 conj _ _ 34 with with ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 what what PRON WP PronType=Rel 33 obl _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 14 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: suggest - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=suggest | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **prove** *in a quote* | participle | | | | | | clinically *property* | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **test** | participle | | | | | | on people | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **mean** | can | | a tiny test | | | | without fair comparison; in a advert | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot test=Theme in advert=Attribute | | 4 | **ask** *speech: ask* | infinitive | | | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **test** | past | | test | | | | on many people | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 6 | **compare** | past | | | | | | | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Patient with what=Co-Patient | 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:10`. **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. **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: [Where did you read that? Checking sour…, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/28-where-did-you-read-that-checking-sources/9/) - next →: [Where did you read that? Checking sour…, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/28-where-did-you-read-that-checking-sources/11/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/28-where-did-you-read-that-checking-sources/)