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title: A story passed through "my brother's mate's dad" cannot be checked a… — Where did you read that? Checking sources · tree and pragmatics
description: A story passed through "my brother's mate's dad" cannot be checked and is weak evidence. 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 clause.
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# Where did you read that? Checking sources, sentence 18

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A story passed through "my brother's mate's dad" cannot be checked and is weak evidence.

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**What happens:** pass, not check, be · **To what, where:** story, weak evidence

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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: 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:18
# text = A story passed through "my brother's mate's dad" cannot be checked and is weak evidence.
# 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): no change
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	passed	pass	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	through	through	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	_
6	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	_
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	_
10	's	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	dad	dad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
12	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
13	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
14	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
15	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	checked	check	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
19	weak	weak	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	evidence	evidence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	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 | **pass** | participle |  | a story *not said here* |  |  |  | through my brother's mate's dad | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through dad=Location |
| 2 | **not** **check** | can · passive |  | a story |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** | present |  | weak evidence |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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:18`.

**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): no change. **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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