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title: The second question is how they know: a real study has a name, scien… — How to check: who, how, who else · tree and pragmatics
description: The second question is how they know: a real study has a name, scientists and usually a link, and other scientists often check it first in peer review. Who acts: questions, real study, other scientists. A sentence of the lesson «How to check: who, how, who else» of the politics course of Mova's prim
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# How to check: who, how, who else, sentence 6

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The second question is how they know: a real study has a name, scientists and usually a link, and other scientists often check it first in peer review.

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**Who acts:** questions, real study, other scientists · **What happens:** be, know, have, check · **To what, where:** second question, name, study, peer review · **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 (questions, real study, other scientists), 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:6
# text = The second question is how they know: a real study has a name, scientists and usually a link, and other scientists often check it first in peer review.
# 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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	3	amod	_	_
3	question	question	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
5	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	_
6	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	study	study	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	scientists	scientist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	link	link	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
23	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	scientists	scientist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	_
25	often	often	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	check	check	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=12:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
27	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	_
28	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	26	advmod	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	peer	peer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	review	review	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **be** *speech: other* | present |  | the second question |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **know** | present | questions *= question* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **have** | present | a real study | a name and scientists and a link |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Patient |
| 4 | **check** | present | other scientists | study |  | peer review |  | first, often *property* | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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:6`.

**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): R8-pos-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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