--- title: Watch for tricks: an edited photo of a real animal, a selling word l… — How would we know? Asking experts and spotting t… · tree and pragmatics description: Watch for tricks: an edited photo of a real animal, a selling word like "superfood", or "everybody knows", which sounds like evidence and isn't. Who acts: you, everybody. A sentence of the lesson «How would we know? Asking experts and spotting tricks» of the myths course of Mova's primary school wit --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/30-how-would-we-know-asking-experts-and-spotting-tricks/4/) [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/) / [How would we know? Asking experts and…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/30-how-would-we-know-asking-experts-and-spotting-tricks/) / 4 # How would we know? Asking experts and spotting tricks, sentence 4 Watch for tricks: an edited photo of a real animal, a selling word like "superfood", or "everybody knows", which sounds like evidence and isn't. **Who acts:** you, everybody · **What happens:** watch, edit, sell, know, sound, not be This is a sentence of the lesson «How would we know? Asking experts and spotting tricks» 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 (you, everybody), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:myths:030-how-would-we-know-asking-experts-and-spotting-tricks.lesson:4 # text = Watch for tricks: an edited photo of a real animal, a selling word like "superfood", or "everybody knows", which sounds like evidence and isn't. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = myths # lesson = 030-how-would-we-know-asking-experts-and-spotting-tricks.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 Watch watch VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 for for ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 3 tricks trick NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obl _ _ 4 : : PUNCT : _ 7 punct _ _ 5 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 edited edit VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 amod _ _ 7 photo photo NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 parataxis _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 animal animal NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 selling sell VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 15 amod _ _ 15 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 conj _ _ 16 like like ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 " " PUNCT `` _ 18 punct _ _ 18 superfood superfood NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod _ _ 19 " " PUNCT '' _ 18 punct _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 21 or or CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 22 " " PUNCT `` _ 24 punct _ _ 23 everybody everybody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 24 nsubj _ _ 24 knows know VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 25 " " PUNCT '' _ 24 punct _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 27 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 28 nsubj _ _ 28 sounds sound VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 acl:relcl _ _ 29 like like ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 evidence evidence NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 32 is be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 conj _ _ 33 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 32 advmod _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: request - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **watch** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | for tricks | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent for trick=Theme | | 2 | **edit** | participle | | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **sell** | gerund | | | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **know** *in a quote* | present | everybody | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **sound** | present | | | | | | like evidence | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 6 | **not** **be** | present | | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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. 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