--- title: A claim is true or false all by itself: two plus two is four whether… — Check the claim, not the person · tree and pragmatics description: A claim is true or false all by itself: two plus two is four whether a professor says it, a six-year-old says it, or your most annoying cousin says it. Who acts: claim, professor, year old, annoying cousin. 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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 (claim, professor, year old, annoying cousin), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:world:188-check-the-claim-not-the-person.lesson:0 # text = A claim is true or false all by itself: two plus two is four whether a professor says it, a six-year-old says it, or your most annoying cousin says it. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = world # lesson = 188-check-the-claim-not-the-person.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, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 claim claim NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 true true ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 5 or or CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 false false ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 conj _ _ 7 all all ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 8 by by ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 itself itself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 4 obl _ _ 10 : : PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 11 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 4 parataxis _ _ 12 plus plus CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 13 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 11 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:compound 14 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 15 four four NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 11 conj _ _ 16 whether whether SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 professor professor NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 19 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 advcl _ _ 20 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 obj _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=28:det 23 six six NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 25 nummod _ _ 24 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 23 punct _ _ 25 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=27:obl:unmarked 26 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 25 punct _ _ 27 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 nsubj _ _ 28 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ _ 29 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 obj _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 31 or or CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 32 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 35 nmod:poss _ _ 33 most most ADV RBS Degree=Sup 34 advmod _ _ 34 annoying annoying ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 cousin cousin NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nsubj _ _ 36 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ _ 37 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 obj _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | a claim | | | | | by claim; true *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **be** | | a claim *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **is a** | present | a claim *not said here* | four | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | a professor | claim | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | a year old | claim | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic | | 6 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | your annoying cousin | claim | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic | 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:world:188-check-the-claim-not-the-person.lesson:0`. **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, R7-rel-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/). - ← previous: [One counterexample is enough, 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/187-one-counterexample-is-enough/20/) - next →: [Check the claim, not the person, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/188-check-the-claim-not-the-person/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/188-check-the-claim-not-the-person/)