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title: Some people say to trust official sources first, others say official… — How to check: who, how, who else · tree and pragmatics
description: Some people say to trust official sources first, others say officials can be wrong too, so check the evidence as well. Who acts: people, others, officials. 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 pra
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# How to check: who, how, who else, sentence 15

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Some people say to trust official sources first, others say officials can be wrong too, so check the evidence as well.

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**Who acts:** people, others, officials · **What happens:** say, trust, be, check · **To what, where:** official sources, evidence · **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 (people, others, officials), 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:15
# text = Some people say to trust official sources first, others say officials can be wrong too, so check the evidence as well.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	trust	trust	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:ccomp
6	official	official	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	sources	source	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
8	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	5	advmod	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
11	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
12	officials	official	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
13	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	cop	_	_
15	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	ccomp	_	_
16	too	too	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	so	so	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	check	check	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	evidence	evidence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	as	as	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
23	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	22	fixed	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed polarity=none

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | some people |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **trust** | to-infinitive | some people *not said here* | official sources |  |  |  | first *property* | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent source=Theme |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | others |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** | can | officials |  |  |  |  | wrong *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **check** | infinitive | others *not said here* | the evidence |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent evidence=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:035-how-to-check-who-how-who-else.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): R7-rel-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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