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title: Check facts before using them: Messi has scored headers, including o… — The football argument that goes in circles · tree and pragmatics
description: Check facts before using them: Messi has scored headers, including one in the 2009 Champions League final. Who acts: you, Messi. 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 cla
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# The football argument that goes in circles, sentence 9

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Check facts before using them: Messi has scored headers, including one in the 2009 Champions League final.

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**Who acts:** you, Messi · **What happens:** check, use, score · **To what, where:** facts, results, headers

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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, Messi), 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:9
# text = Check facts before using them: Messi has scored headers, including one in the 2009 Champions League final.
# 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 ×1
1	Check	check	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	facts	fact	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
3	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
4	using	use	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	advcl	_	_
5	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
7	Messi	Messi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
8	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	scored	score	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	1	parataxis	_	_
10	headers	header	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
12	including	include	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nmod	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
16	2009	2009	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
17	Champions	champion	PROPN	NNPS	_	18	compound	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:compound
18	League	League	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	final	final	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
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* | facts |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fact=Theme |
| 2 | **use** | gerund | you *not said here* | results *= result* |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
| 3 | **score** | present · perfect | Messi | headers |  |  |  | include one in the 2009 League final | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent header=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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**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:9`.

**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. **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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