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title: Wikipedia is a useful starting point that lists its sources, but any… — Where did you read that? Checking sources · tree and pragmatics
description: Wikipedia is a useful starting point that lists its sources, but anyone can edit it, so check the sources it links to. Who acts: Wikipedia, useful starting point, anyone, point. A sentence of the lesson «Where did you read that? Checking sources» of the myths course of Mova's primary school with its
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# Where did you read that? Checking sources, sentence 12

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Wikipedia is a useful starting point that lists its sources, but anyone can edit it, so check the sources it links to.

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**Who acts:** Wikipedia, useful starting point, anyone, point · **What happens:** be, list, edit, check, link to · **To what, where:** useful starting point, sources, point

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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 (Wikipedia, useful starting point, anyone, point), 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:12
# text = Wikipedia is a useful starting point that lists its sources, but anyone can edit it, so check the sources it links to.
# 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 ×1
1	Wikipedia	Wikipedia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	useful	useful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	starting	starting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	point	point	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
8	lists	list	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
9	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	sources	source	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	anyone	anyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	15	nsubj	_	_
14	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	edit	edit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:parataxis
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	so	so	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	check	check	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	sources	source	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	links	link	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	acl:relcl	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	compound:prt	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **is a** | present | Wikipedia | a useful starting point |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **list** | present | a useful starting point | point's sources |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **edit** | can | anyone | point |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **check** | infinitive | anyone *not said here* | the sources |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent source=Theme |
| 5 | **link to** | present | point | the sources *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent source=Patient |

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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): R7-rel-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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