--- title: Fact-checkers check claims, look for evidence, ask experts and show… — How to check: who, how, who else · tree and pragmatics description: Fact-checkers check claims, look for evidence, ask experts and show their working, and rate claims true, false or misleading. Who acts: Fact checkers. 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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), 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:8 # text = Fact-checkers check claims, look for evidence, ask experts and show their working, and rate claims true, false or misleading. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×2, R8-pos-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 check check VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 claims claim NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 7 look look VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 for for ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 evidence evidence NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 ask ask VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=7:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 experts expert NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obj _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 show show VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=11:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 working working NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=4:punct 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 rate rate VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 20 claims claim NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obj _ _ 21 true true ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 xcomp _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 23 false false ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 conj _ _ 24 or or CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 misleading misleading ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=23:conj 26 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **check** | present | Fact checkers | claims | | | | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent claim=Theme | | 2 | **look** | infinitive | Fact checkers *not said here* | | | | | for evidence | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for evidence=Theme | | 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | infinitive | Fact checkers *not said here* | experts | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent expert=Recipient | | 4 | **show** | infinitive | Fact checkers *not said here* | checkers's working | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent working=Recipient | | 5 | **rate** | present | Fact checkers *not said here* | claims | | | | true *property* | vn price-54.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent claim=Theme | 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. **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:8`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×2, R8-pos-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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [How to check: who, how, who else, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/35-how-to-check-who-how-who-else/7/) - next →: [How to check: who, how, who else, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/35-how-to-check-who-how-who-else/9/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/35-how-to-check-who-how-who-else/)