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title: The first check is quick: who wrote it, when, and does anyone else r… — Propaganda and fake news · tree and pragmatics
description: The first check is quick: who wrote it, when, and does anyone else report it? Who acts: first check, anyone. A sentence of the lesson «Propaganda and fake news» of the politics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Propaganda and fake news, sentence 4

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The first check is quick: who wrote it, when, and does anyone else report it?

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**Who acts:** first check, anyone · **What happens:** be, write, report · **To what, where:** check

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Propaganda and fake news» 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 (first check, anyone), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:politics:031-propaganda-and-fake-news.lesson:4
# text = The first check is quick: who wrote it, when, and does anyone else report it?
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = politics
# lesson = 031-propaganda-and-fake-news.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	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	3	amod	_	_
3	check	check	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	quick	quick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
7	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
8	wrote	write	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
14	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
15	anyone	anyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	17	nsubj	_	_
16	else	else	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	report	report	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: yes/no question
- act: ask
- 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** | present | the first check |  |  |  |  | quick *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **write** | past |  | check |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 3 | **report** | present · do-support | anyone | check |  |  |  |  | vn prosecute-33.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |

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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:031-propaganda-and-fake-news.lesson:4`.

**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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