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title: Fact-checkers do this for a living; they also use tricks like latera… — How to check: who, how, who else · tree and pragmatics
description: Fact-checkers do this for a living; they also use tricks like lateral reading, searching for a website's name in a new tab, and reverse image search, searching with a picture instead of words. Who acts: Fact checkers, checkers, website. A sentence of the lesson «How to check: who, how, who else» of 
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# How to check: who, how, who else, sentence 2

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Fact-checkers do this for a living; they also use tricks like lateral reading, searching for a website's name in a new tab, and reverse image search, searching with a picture instead of words.

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**Who acts:** Fact checkers, checkers, website · **What happens:** do, use, search, name · **To what, where:** this, tricks, new tab

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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 (Fact checkers, checkers, website), 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:2
# text = Fact-checkers do this for a living; they also use tricks like lateral reading, searching for a website's name in a new tab, and reverse image search, searching with a picture instead of words.
# 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 ×2
1	Fact	fact	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	_
3	checkers	checker	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	obj	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	living	living	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	also	also	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	use	use	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj
13	tricks	trick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
14	like	like	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	lateral	lateral	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
16	reading	reading	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	searching	search	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	website	website	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod:poss	_	_
22	's	's	PART	POS	_	21	case	_	_
23	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	tab	tab	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
30	reverse	reverse	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
31	image	image	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	search	search	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
34	searching	search	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	conj	_	_
35	with	with	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	picture	picture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
38	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADP	40	case	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	fixed	_	_
40	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obl	_	_
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **do** | present | Fact checkers | this |  |  |  | for a living | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality |
| 2 | **use** | present | checkers *= checker* | tricks |  |  |  | like lateral reading | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trick=Patient |
| 3 | **search** | gerund | checkers *= checker* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for a website's name in a new tab and reverse image search | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent for name=Theme |
| 4 | **search** | gerund | checkers *= checker* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with a picture; instead words | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **name** |  | a website |  |  | a new tab |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent in=place |

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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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**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 ×2. **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.

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