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title: Giant squid are real deep-sea animals, but photos of them can be edi… — How would we know? Asking experts and spotting t… · tree and pragmatics
description: Giant squid are real deep-sea animals, but photos of them can be edited; a giant squid on a British beach would be reported by real news outlets and museums, and a grown-up can do a reverse image search (asking a search site where else the photo has appeared). Who acts: Giant squid, real news outlet
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# How would we know? Asking experts and spotting tricks, sentence 9

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Giant squid are real deep-sea animals, but photos of them can be edited; a giant squid on a British beach would be reported by real news outlets and museums, and a grown-up can do a reverse image search (asking a search site where else the photo has appeared).

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**Who acts:** Giant squid, real news outlets, grown up, photo · **What happens:** be, edit, report, grow, do, ask · **To what, where:** real sea animals, photos, giant squid, image search, search site

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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 (Giant squid, real news outlets, grown up, photo), 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:9
# text = Giant squid are real deep-sea animals, but photos of them can be edited; a giant squid on a British beach would be reported by real news outlets and museums, and a grown-up can do a reverse image search (asking a search site where else the photo has appeared).
# 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): R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	squid	squid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=8:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
4	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
5	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	_
7	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=11:punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
11	photos	photo	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nmod	_	_
14	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	edited	edit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	conj	_	_
17	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	squid	squid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj:pass	_	_
21	on	on	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	British	British	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	beach	beach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
25	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
26	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	aux:pass	_	_
27	reported	report	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	conj	_	_
28	by	by	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
30	news	news	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	outlets	outlet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl:agent	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	museums	museum	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	conj	_	_
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	39	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=37:det
37	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	39	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=41:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
38	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	39	punct	_	_
39	up	up	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=37:compound:prt|HaikuPos=ADP:RP:_
40	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	41	aux	_	_
41	do	do	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	16	parataxis	_	_
42	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
43	reverse	reverse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	compound	_	_
44	image	image	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	compound	_	_
45	search	search	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obj	_	_
46	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	47	punct	_	_
47	asking	ask	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	41	advcl	_	_
48	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
49	search	search	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	compound	_	_
50	site	site	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obj	_	_
51	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	56	advmod	_	_
52	else	else	ADV	RB	_	51	advmod	_	_
53	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
54	photo	photo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	nsubj	_	_
55	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	56	aux	_	_
56	appeared	appear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	50	acl:relcl	_	_
57	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	47	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=56:punct
58	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=16:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Giant squid | real sea animals |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **edit** | can · passive |  | photos of fighters |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **report** | would · passive | real news outlets and museums | a giant squid on a British beach |  |  |  |  | vn prosecute-33.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient |
| 4 | **grow** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **do** | can | a grown up | a image search |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent search=Eventuality |
| 6 | **ask** *speech: ask* | gerund | a grown up *not said here* | a search site |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent site=Recipient |
| 7 | **appear** | present · perfect | the photo |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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:030-how-would-we-know-asking-experts-and-spotting-tricks.lesson:9`.

**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): R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-agree ×3, R8-pos-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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