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title: Fact checkers look up the claims made in a debate in official record… — Debates and rows on chat shows · tree and pragmatics
description: Fact checkers look up the claims made in a debate in official records; "misleading" means partly true but leaving you with the wrong picture. Who acts: Fact checkers, misleading. A sentence of the lesson «Debates and rows on chat shows» of the politics course of Mova's primary school with its depend
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# Debates and rows on chat shows, sentence 15

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Fact checkers look up the claims made in a debate in official records; "misleading" means partly true but leaving you with the wrong picture.

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**Who acts:** Fact checkers, misleading · **What happens:** look up, make, mean, leave · **To what, where:** claims, debate, you

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Debates and rows on chat shows» of the politics 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 (Fact checkers, misleading), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:politics:011-debates-and-rows-on-chat-shows.lesson:15
# text = Fact checkers look up the claims made in a debate in official records; "misleading" means partly true but leaving you with the wrong picture.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = politics
# lesson = 011-debates-and-rows-on-chat-shows.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	Fact	fact	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	checkers	checker	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	look	look	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	claims	claim	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
7	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	debate	debate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	official	official	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	records	record	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	_
16	misleading	misleading	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
17	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
18	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
19	partly	partly	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	xcomp	_	_
21	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	leaving	leave	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	conj	_	_
23	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	picture	picture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **look up** | present | Fact checkers | the claims |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme claim=Attribute |
| 2 | **make** | participle |  | the claims *not said here* |  | a debate in official records |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 3 | **mean** | present | misleading |  |  |  |  | true *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **leave** | gerund | misleading *not said here* |  | you |  |  | with the wrong picture | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent you=Recipient with picture=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:politics:011-debates-and-rows-on-chat-shows.lesson:15`.

**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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