How to check: who, how, who else, sentence 0

Most claims can be checked with three questions: who says so, how do they know, and who else reports it?

Who acts: three questions, claims · What happens: check, say, know, report · To what, where: Most claims, it · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «How to check: who, how, who else» of the politics 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 (three questions, claims), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	2 claims	amod
2	claims	claim	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 checked	nsubj:pass
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 checked	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 checked	aux:pass
5	checked	check	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 questions	case
7	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 questions	nummod
8	questions	question	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 checked	obl
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 checked	punct
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 says	nsubj
11	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 questions	appos
12	so	so	ADV	_	11 says	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 know	punct
14	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	17 know	advmod
15	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 know	aux
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 know	nsubj
17	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 says	ccomp
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 reports	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 reports	cc
20	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 reports	nsubj
21	else	else	ADV	_	20 who	advmod
22	reports	report	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 says	conj
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 reports	obj
24	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 checked	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	check	can · passive		Most claims	with three questions	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	say speech: assert	present	three questions			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	know	present · do-support	claims = claim			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	report	present		it		vn prosecute-33.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

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, 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:politics:035-how-to-check-who-how-who-else.lesson:0.

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.

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