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title: A printed book can be out of date, a headline can squash a small stu… — Where did you read that? Checking sources · tree and pragmatics
description: A printed book can be out of date, a headline can squash a small study into a big claim, an advert wants to sell you something, and "my brother's mate's dad" is a chain nobody can check. Who acts: printed book, headline, advert, dad. A sentence of the lesson «Where did you read that? Checking source
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# Where did you read that? Checking sources, sentence 5

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A printed book can be out of date, a headline can squash a small study into a big claim, an advert wants to sell you something, and "my brother's mate's dad" is a chain nobody can check.

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**Who acts:** printed book, headline, advert, dad, nobody · **What happens:** print, be, squash, want, sell, check · **To what, where:** date, small study, big claim, something, you, chain

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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 (printed book, headline, advert, dad), 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:5
# text = A printed book can be out of date, a headline can squash a small study into a big claim, an advert wants to sell you something, and "my brother's mate's dad" is a chain nobody can check.
# 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	printed	print	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	amod	_	_
3	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
4	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	cop	_	_
6	out	out	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	date	date	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	headline	headline	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
12	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	squash	squash	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	study	study	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
17	into	into	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	claim	claim	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	advert	advert	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
24	wants	want	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=13:conj
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	sell	sell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	xcomp	_	_
27	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	26	iobj	_	_
28	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	26	obj	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=37:punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
31	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	37	punct	_	_
32	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod:poss	_	_
34	's	's	PART	POS	_	33	case	_	_
35	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nmod:poss	_	_
36	's	's	PART	POS	_	35	case	_	_
37	dad	dad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nsubj	_	_
38	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	37	punct	_	_
39	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	41	cop	_	_
40	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	chain	chain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	_
42	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	44	nsubj	_	_
43	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	44	aux	_	_
44	check	check	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	41	acl:relcl	_	_
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **print** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | can | a printed book |  |  | date |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **squash** | can | a headline | a small study |  | a big claim |  |  | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent study=Theme into claim=Destination |
| 4 | **want** | present | a advert |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 5 | **sell** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | a advert *not said here* | something | you |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient something=Theme |
| 6 | **is a** | present | my brother's mate's dad | a chain |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **check** | can | nobody | a chain *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chain=Theme |

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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:5`.

**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): R3-conj-first ×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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