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title: Check a fact before you argue with it: one false "fact" makes the wh… — The football argument that goes in circles · tree and pragmatics
description: Check a fact before you argue with it: one false "fact" makes the whole argument wobble. Who acts: you, one false fact. A sentence of the lesson «The football argument that goes in circles» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The football argument that goes in circles, sentence 19

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Check a fact before you argue with it: one false "fact" makes the whole argument wobble.

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**Who acts:** you, one false fact · **What happens:** check, argue, make · **To what, where:** fact, whole argument wobble

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The football argument that goes in circles» of the world 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 (you, one false fact), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:170-the-football-argument-that-goes-in-circles.lesson:19
# text = Check a fact before you argue with it: one false "fact" makes the whole argument wobble.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 170-the-football-argument-that-goes-in-circles.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 ×2
1	Check	check	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	fact	fact	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	argue	argue	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	advcl	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obl	_	_
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
10	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:nsubj
11	false	false	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	_
13	fact	fact	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:appos
14	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
15	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
17	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
18	argument	argument	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	wobble	wobble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	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** | imperative | you *not said here* | a fact |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fact=Theme |
| 2 | **argue** *speech: disagree* | present | you |  |  |  |  | with fact | vn chit\_chat-37.6-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with it=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **make** | present | one false fact | the whole argument wobble |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset wobble=Product |

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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:world:170-the-football-argument-that-goes-in-circles.lesson:19`.

**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 ×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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