How to check: who, how, who else, sentence 8
Fact-checkers check claims, look for evidence, ask experts and show their working, and rate claims true, false or misleading.
Who acts: Fact checkers · What happens: check, look, ask, show, rate · To what, where: claims, experts, working
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 (Fact checkers), 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 | Fact | fact | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 checkers | compound |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Fact | punct |
| 3 | checkers | checker | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 check | nsubj |
| 4 | check | check | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | claims | claim | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 check | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 look | punct |
| 7 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 check | conj |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 evidence | case |
| 9 | evidence | evidence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 look | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 ask | punct |
| 11 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 check | conj |
| 12 | experts | expert | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 ask | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 show | cc |
| 14 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 ask | conj |
| 15 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 working | nmod:poss |
| 16 | working | working | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 show | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 rate | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 rate | cc |
| 19 | rate | rate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 check | conj |
| 20 | claims | claim | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 rate | obj |
| 21 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 rate | xcomp |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 false | punct |
| 23 | false | false | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 true | conj |
| 24 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 25 misleading | cc |
| 25 | misleading | misleading | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 true | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 check | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | check | present | Fact checkers | claims | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent claim=Theme | ||||
| 2 | look | infinitive | Fact checkers not said here | for evidence | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for evidence=Theme | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | infinitive | Fact checkers not said here | experts | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent expert=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | show | infinitive | Fact checkers not said here | checkers's working | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent working=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | rate | present | Fact checkers not said here | claims | true property | vn price-54.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent claim=Theme |
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: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): R2-punct-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2. 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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