--- title: To check a claim, ask who says it, how they know, and who else repor… — Olympiad: check the claim and spot the trick ★★★ · tree and pragmatics description: To check a claim, ask who says it, how they know, and who else reports it; if you cannot find out yet, "not sure yet" is an honest answer. Who acts: sure, Likes, 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 (sure, Likes, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:politics:042-olympiad-check-the-claim-and-spot-the-trick.lesson:14 # text = To check a claim, ask who says it, how they know, and who else reports it; if you cannot find out yet, "not sure yet" is an honest answer. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = politics # lesson = 042-olympiad-check-the-claim-and-spot-the-trick.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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 To to PART TO _ 2 mark _ _ 2 check check VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 37 advcl _ _ 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 ask ask VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 conj _ _ 7 who who PRON WP PronType=Int 8 nsubj _ _ 8 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 ccomp _ _ 9 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 obj _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 11 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 13 advmod _ _ 12 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 know know VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 ccomp _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 16 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 18 nsubj _ _ 17 else else ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 18 reports report VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 19 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 obj _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT : _ 25 punct _ _ 21 if if SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 22 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 23 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 24 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 25 advmod _ _ 25 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 conj _ _ 26 out out ADP RP _ 25 compound:prt _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=25:compound:prt|HaikuPos=PART:RP:_ 27 yet yet ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 29 " " PUNCT `` _ 31 punct _ _ 30 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 31 advmod _ _ 31 sure sure ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 nsubj _ _ 32 yet yet ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 33 " " PUNCT '' _ 31 punct _ _ 34 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 37 cop _ _ 35 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 36 honest honest ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 answer answer NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 37 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **check** | to-infinitive | sure *not said here* | a claim | | | | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent claim=Theme | | 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | infinitive | sure *not said here* | | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | | claim | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **know** | present | Likes *= like* | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **report** | present | | claim | | | | | vn prosecute-33.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | | 6 | **not** **find out** *a condition, not said to happen* | can | you | | | | yet | | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **is a** | present | sure | a honest answer | | | | | tree rules | 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:042-olympiad-check-the-claim-and-spot-the-trick.lesson:14`. **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): R8-pos-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. 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