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title: Go on, check." Tom: "...It's four." — Check the claim, not the person · tree and pragmatics
description: Go on, check." Tom: "...It's four." Who acts: you, person. 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 6

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Go on, check." Tom: "...It's four."

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**Who acts:** you, person · **What happens:** go on, check, be · **To what, where:** Tom, four

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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 (you, 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:6
# text = Go on, check." Tom: "...It's four."
# 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	Go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	on	on	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	check	check	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
5	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	"	_	7	punct	_	_
7	Tom	Tom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	1	punct	_	_
9	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	_
10	...	...	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
13	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	1	parataxis	_	_
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
15	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go on** | imperative | you *not said here* | Tom |  |  |  |  | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **check** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | present | person | four |  |  |  |  | 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:6`.

**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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