--- title: To verify a claim, look on official websites and big news sites; if… — Putting it together: explain each side, check th… · tree and pragmatics description: To verify a claim, look on official websites and big news sites; if nothing official has it, it is probably not true, and you can say so without laughing at anyone. Who acts: nothing, claim, you. 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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 (nothing, claim, you), 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:6 # text = To verify a claim, look on official websites and big news sites; if nothing official has it, it is probably not true, and you can say so without laughing at anyone. # 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): R1-cc-next ×1 1 To to PART TO _ 2 mark _ _ 2 verify verify VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 claim claim NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 6 look look VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 7 on on ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 official official ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 websites website NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=9:cc 11 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 12 news news NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 13 sites site NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 conj _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT : _ 25 punct _ _ 15 if if SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 16 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 18 nsubj _ _ 17 official official ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 18 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 advcl _ _ 19 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 obj _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 21 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 22 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 cop _ _ 23 probably probably ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 24 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 25 advmod _ _ 25 true true ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 parataxis _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 28 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 29 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 30 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 conj _ _ 31 so so ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 32 without without SCONJ IN _ 33 mark _ _ 33 laughing laugh VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 30 advcl _ _ 34 at at ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 anyone anyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 33 obl _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **verify** | to-infinitive | | a claim | | | | | vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot claim=Topic | | 2 | **look** | infinitive | | | | | | on official websites and big news sites | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on website=Theme | | 3 | **have** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | nothing | claim | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | | 4 | **not** **is** | present | claim | | | | | probably, true *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | can | you | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **laugh** | gerund | you *not said here* | | | anyone | | | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:040-putting-it-together.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): R1-cc-next ×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/). - ← previous: [Putting it together: explain each side…, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/40-putting-it-together/5/) - next →: [Putting it together: explain each side…, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/40-putting-it-together/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/40-putting-it-together/)