--- title: Being related to an expert, or being popular, isn't evidence. — Check the claim, not the person · tree and pragmatics description: Being related to an expert, or being popular, isn't evidence. 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/8/) [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/) / 8 # Check the claim, not the person, sentence 8 Being related to an expert, or being popular, isn't evidence. **What happens:** be, not be · **To what, where:** evidence 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: 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:8 # text = Being related to an expert, or being popular, isn't evidence. # 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 Being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 cop _ _ 2 related related ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 csubj _ _ 3 to to ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 expert expert NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 7 or or CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 8 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 9 cop _ _ 9 popular popular ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 conj _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 11 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 12 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 13 advmod _ _ 13 evidence evidence NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 14 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | gerund | | | | | | to a expert; related *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **is** | gerund | | | | | | popular *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **not** **is a** | present | | evidence | | | | | tree rules | 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:8`. **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, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/188-check-the-claim-not-the-person/7/) - next →: [Check the claim, not the person, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/188-check-the-claim-not-the-person/9/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/188-check-the-claim-not-the-person/)