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title: Most claims can be checked with three questions: who says so, how do… — How to check: who, how, who else · tree and pragmatics
description: Most claims can be checked with three questions: who says so, how do they know, and who else reports it? Who acts: three questions, claims. A sentence of the lesson «How to check: who, how, who else» of the politics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every
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# How to check: who, how, who else, sentence 0

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Most claims can be checked with three questions: who says so, how do they know, and who else reports it?

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**Who acts:** three questions, claims · **What happens:** check, say, know, report · **To what, where:** Most claims, it · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «How to check: who, how, who else» 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 (three questions, claims), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:politics:035-how-to-check-who-how-who-else.lesson:0
# text = Most claims can be checked with three questions: who says so, how do they know, and who else reports it?
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = politics
# lesson = 035-how-to-check-who-how-who-else.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	Most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	2	amod	_	_
2	claims	claim	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	checked	check	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	questions	question	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
10	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
11	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	appos	_	_
12	so	so	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	17	advmod	_	_
15	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	ccomp	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
21	else	else	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
22	reports	report	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **check** | can · passive |  | Most claims |  |  |  | with three questions | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | three questions |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **know** | present · do-support | claims *= claim* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **report** | present |  | it |  |  |  |  | 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:035-how-to-check-who-how-who-else.lesson:0`.

**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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