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title: Before believing or sharing, ask: who posted it, can I check it some… — "It's on TikTok so it's true" and the comment se… · tree and pragmatics
description: Before believing or sharing, ask: who posted it, can I check it somewhere trusted, and is there another explanation? Who acts: you, I, explanation. A sentence of the lesson «"It's on TikTok so it's true" and the comment section» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree a
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# "It's on TikTok so it's true" and the comment section, sentence 7

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Before believing or sharing, ask: who posted it, can I check it somewhere trusted, and is there another explanation?

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**Who acts:** you, I, explanation · **What happens:** believe, share, ask, post, check, trust · **To what, where:** hello · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «"It's on TikTok so it's true" and the comment section» 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, I, explanation), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:175-its-on-tiktok-so-its-true-and-the-comment-section.lesson:7
# text = Before believing or sharing, ask: who posted it, can I check it somewhere trusted, and is there another explanation?
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 175-its-on-tiktok-so-its-true-and-the-comment-section.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): R6-punct-agree ×1
1	Before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	believing	believe	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
3	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	sharing	share	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	conj	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
6	ask	ask	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
8	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
9	posted	post	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	ccomp	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	check	check	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	parataxis	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	somewhere	somewhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	17	advmod	_	_
17	trusted	trust	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	advcl	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
21	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	20	expl	_	_
22	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	23	det	_	_
23	explanation	explanation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
24	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=20:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: suggest
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed form=imp, act=suggest, voice=narrator

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **believe** | gerund | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **share** | gerund | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **post** | past |  | hello |  |  |  |  | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 5 | **check** | can | I | hello |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 6 | **trust** | participle | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  | somewhere *property* | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **be** | present | another explanation |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «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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**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:175-its-on-tiktok-so-its-true-and-the-comment-section.lesson:7`.

**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): R6-punct-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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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