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title: Some things are facts as widely reported, like who invaded whom, and… — Putting it together: explain each side, check th… · tree and pragmatics
description: Some things are facts as widely reported, like who invaded whom, and some are arguments people still have; a good citizen keeps the two apart, argues kindly, and tells people honestly what happened, like a class rep at the end of the term. Who acts: things, some, arguments people, good citizen. A se
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# Putting it together: explain each side, check the claim, sentence 4

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Some things are facts as widely reported, like who invaded whom, and some are arguments people still have; a good citizen keeps the two apart, argues kindly, and tells people honestly what happened, like a class rep at the end of the term.

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**Who acts:** things, some, arguments people, good citizen · **What happens:** be, report, invade, have, keep, argue · **To what, where:** facts, arguments, two, people · **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 (things, some, arguments people, good citizen), 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:4
# text = Some things are facts as widely reported, like who invaded whom, and some are arguments people still have; a good citizen keeps the two apart, argues kindly, and tells people honestly what happened, like a class rep at the end of the term.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	facts	fact	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
5	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
6	widely	widely	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	reported	report	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	like	like	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
10	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
11	invaded	invade	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
12	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	11	obj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
15	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	17	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:det
16	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
17	arguments	argument	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	compound	_	_
18	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
19	still	still	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	_
21	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	citizen	citizen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
25	keeps	keep	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	obj	_	_
28	apart	apart	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=28:punct
30	argues	argue	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=25:advcl
31	kindly	kindly	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	tells	tell	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	conj	_	_
35	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obj	_	_
36	honestly	honestly	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=38:advmod
37	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	38	nsubj	_	_
38	happened	happen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	ccomp	_	_
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
40	like	like	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
41	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
42	class	class	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	compound	_	_
43	rep	rep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	_
44	at	at	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	nmod	_	_
47	of	of	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	term	term	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	nmod	_	_
50	.	.	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 | **is a** | present | some things | facts and arguments people |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **report** | participle |  | facts and arguments people *not said here* |  |  |  | widely *property* | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **invade** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is a** | present | some | arguments |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **have** | present | arguments people *not said here* |  |  |  | still |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **keep** | present | a good citizen and a class rep at the end of the term | the two |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent two=Theme |
| 7 | **argue** *speech: disagree* | present | a good citizen and a class rep at the end of the term *not said here* |  |  |  |  | apart, kindly *property* | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | a good citizen and a class rep at the end of the term *not said here* |  | people |  |  | honestly *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent people=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 9 | **happen** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3. **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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