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title: Checking is the habit from the information-wars lessons: who says so… — Putting it together: explain each side, check th… · tree and pragmatics
description: Checking is the habit from the information-wars lessons: who says so, how do they know, who else reports it, find the full clip, and "not sure yet" is allowed. Who acts: habit, habits. A sentence of the lesson «Putting it together: explain each side, check the claim» of the politics course of Mova's
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# Putting it together: explain each side, check the claim, sentence 2

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Checking is the habit from the information-wars lessons: who says so, how do they know, who else reports it, find the full clip, and "not sure yet" is allowed.

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**Who acts:** habit, habits · **What happens:** check, be, say, know, report, find · **To what, where:** habit, wars lessons, lesson, full clip · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Putting it together: explain each side, check the claim» 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 (habit, habits), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:politics:040-putting-it-together.lesson:2
# text = Checking is the habit from the information-wars lessons: who says so, how do they know, who else reports it, find the full clip, and "not sure yet" is allowed.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = politics
# lesson = 040-putting-it-together.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): R6-punct-agree ×2
1	Checking	check	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	habit	habit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
7	information	information	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	_
9	wars	war	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	compound	_	_
10	lessons	lesson	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
11	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
12	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
13	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
14	so	so	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	19	advmod	_	_
17	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj	_	_
22	else	else	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
23	reports	report	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	ccomp	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=23:punct
26	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	clip	clip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
32	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	34	punct	_	_
33	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	34	advmod	_	_
34	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	parataxis	_	_
35	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
36	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	34	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=38:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_
37	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	38	aux:pass	_	_
38	allowed	allow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	34	conj	_	_
39	.	.	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 | **check** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | present |  | the habit |  | the wars lessons |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the habit |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **know** | present · do-support | habits *= habit* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 5 | **report** | present |  | lesson |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent it=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 6 | **find** | infinitive |  | the full clip |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clip=Topic |
| 7 | **allow** | present · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V S\_ING» |

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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:040-putting-it-together.lesson:2`.

**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): R6-punct-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/).

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