--- title: It works the other way too: having a scientist for a mum doesn't mak… — Check the claim, not the person · tree and pragmatics description: It works the other way too: having a scientist for a mum doesn't make Ava right about the weather. Who acts: person, having. 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/188-check-the-claim-not-the-person/7/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/) / [Check the claim, not the person](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/188-check-the-claim-not-the-person/) / 7 # Check the claim, not the person, sentence 7 It works the other way too: having a scientist for a mum doesn't make Ava right about the weather. **Who acts:** person, having · **What happens:** work, have, not make · **To what, where:** other way, scientist, Ava 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 (person, having), 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:7 # text = It works the other way too: having a scientist for a mum doesn't make Ava right about the weather. # 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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 works work VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:obj 6 too too ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:advmod 7 : : PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ _ 8 having have VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 16 csubj _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 scientist scientist NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 11 for for ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 mum mum NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 14 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 15 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 16 advmod _ _ 16 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:advcl 17 Ava Ava PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 obj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=16:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 18 right right ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 xcomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 19 about about ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 weather weather NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:xcomp 22 . . PUNCT . _ 2 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 | **work** | present | person | the other way | | | | | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **have** | gerund | | a scientist | | | | for a mum | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scientist=Patient | | 3 | **not** **make** | present · do-support | having | Ava | | | | right *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset ava=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: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): R5-strong ×3, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-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: [Check the claim, not the person, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/188-check-the-claim-not-the-person/6/) - next →: [Check the claim, not the person, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/188-check-the-claim-not-the-person/8/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/188-check-the-claim-not-the-person/)