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title: Headlines often make a small study sound huge; the study may have te… — Checking practice: true, false and not sure yet · tree and pragmatics
description: Headlines often make a small study sound huge; the study may have tested few people or found something tiny, and usually says "more research is needed". Who acts: Headlines, study. A sentence of the lesson «Checking practice: true, false and not sure yet» of the politics course of Mova's primary sch
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# Checking practice: true, false and not sure yet, sentence 13

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Headlines often make a small study sound huge; the study may have tested few people or found something tiny, and usually says "more research is needed".

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**Who acts:** Headlines, study · **What happens:** make, test, find, say, need · **To what, where:** study sound, few people, something, more research · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Checking practice: true, false and not sure yet» 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 (Headlines, study), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:politics:036-checking-practice-true-false-not-sure.lesson:13
# text = Headlines often make a small study sound huge; the study may have tested few people or found something tiny, and usually says "more research is needed".
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = politics
# lesson = 036-checking-practice-true-false-not-sure.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): R5-strong ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Headlines	headline	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	often	often	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:det
5	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:amod
6	study	study	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
8	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	xcomp	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:xcomp
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	study	study	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
12	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	aux	_	_
14	tested	test	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:advcl
15	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
17	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	14	conj	_	_
19	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	18	obj	_	_
20	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
25	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	29	punct	_	_
26	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	27	amod	_	_
27	research	research	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj:pass	_	_
28	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux:pass	_	_
29	needed	need	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	ccomp	_	_
30	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	29	punct	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **make** | present | Headlines | study sound |  |  |  | often *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset sound=Product |
| 2 | **test** | may · perfect | the study | few people |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme |
| 3 | **find** | participle | the study *not said here* | something |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Topic |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | present |  |  |  |  |  | usually *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **need** *in a quote* | present · passive |  | more research |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: subject=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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**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): R5-strong ×3, 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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