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title: Mum: "Is she wrong, Tom? — Check the claim, not the person · tree and pragmatics
description: Mum: "Is she wrong, Tom? Who acts: cousin. A sentence of the lesson «Check the claim, not the person» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Check the claim, not the person, sentence 4

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Mum: "Is she wrong, Tom?

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**Who acts:** cousin · **What happens:** be

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Check the claim, not the person» 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 (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:4
# text = Mum: "Is she wrong, Tom?
# 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	Mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	dep	_	_
2	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
3	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	_
4	Is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	Tom	Tom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	vocative	_	_
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: yes/no question
- act: ask
- voice: character
- polarity: neg
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | cousin |  |  |  |  | Tom *vocative*; wrong *property* | tree rules |

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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:188-check-the-claim-not-the-person.lesson:4`.

**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/).

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