--- title: Pointing out that someone doesn't do what they say ("you too") may s… — Check the claim, not the person · tree and pragmatics description: Pointing out that someone doesn't do what they say ("you too") may show they are unfair, but it doesn't make their idea wrong. Who acts: someone, ups, person. 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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 (someone, ups, person), 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:13 # text = Pointing out that someone doesn't do what they say ("you too") may show they are unfair, but it doesn't make their idea wrong. # 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): no change 1 Pointing point VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 18 advcl _ _ 2 out out ADP RP _ 1 compound:prt _ _ 3 that that SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 4 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 7 nsubj _ _ 5 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 6 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 7 advmod _ _ 7 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 ccomp _ _ 8 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 7 obj _ _ 9 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 acl:relcl _ _ 11 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 14 punct _ _ 12 " " PUNCT `` _ 14 punct _ _ 13 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 too too ADV RB _ 10 ccomp _ _ 15 " " PUNCT '' _ 14 punct _ _ 16 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 1 punct _ _ 17 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 18 show show VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 19 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 20 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 cop _ _ 21 unfair unfair ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 ccomp _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 23 but but CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 24 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 25 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 26 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 27 advmod _ _ 27 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 conj _ _ 28 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 29 nmod:poss _ _ 29 idea idea NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 30 wrong wrong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 xcomp _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 18 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: evaluate - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - hedged: yes - teacher: changed act=evaluate, hedge=1, polarity=neg, voice=narrator | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **point out** | gerund | | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **not** **do** | present · do-support | someone | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | ups *= up* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **show** | may | | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **is** | present | ups *= up* | | | | | unfair *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **not** **make** | present · do-support | person | ups's idea | | | | wrong *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material idea=Product | 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:13`. **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): no change. **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: [Check the claim, not the person, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/188-check-the-claim-not-the-person/12/) - next →: [Check the claim, not the person, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/188-check-the-claim-not-the-person/14/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/188-check-the-claim-not-the-person/)