Bad news, protests and helping others, sentence 11
Fake news means made-up stories or edited pictures spread on purpose to fool people; some people also use the phrase for news they simply dislike.
Who acts: Fake news, people · What happens: mean, make up, edit, spread, fool, use · To what, where: made stories, edited pictures, purpose, people, phrase, news
This is a sentence of the lesson «Bad news, protests and helping others» of the adult life 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 (Fake news, people), 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 | Fake | fake | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 news | amod |
| 2 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 means | nsubj |
| 3 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 stories | amod |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 up | punct |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 made | compound:prt |
| 7 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 means | obj |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 10 pictures | cc |
| 9 | edited | edit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 pictures | amod |
| 10 | pictures | picture | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 stories | conj |
| 11 | spread | spread | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 pictures | acl |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 purpose | case |
| 13 | purpose | purpose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 spread | obl |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 fool | mark |
| 15 | fool | fool | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 spread | advcl |
| 16 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 fool | obj |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 use | punct |
| 18 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 19 people | det |
| 19 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 use | nsubj |
| 20 | also | also | ADV | _ | 21 use | advmod |
| 21 | use | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 means | parataxis |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 phrase | det |
| 23 | phrase | phrase | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 use | obj |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 news | case |
| 25 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 use | obl |
| 26 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 dislike | nsubj |
| 27 | simply | simply | ADV | _ | 28 dislike | advmod |
| 28 | dislike | dislike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 news | acl:relcl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 means | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | Fake news | made stories or edited pictures | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Topic | ||||
| 2 | make up | participle | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | edit | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | spread | participle | edited pictures not said here | purpose | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on purpose=Location | ||||
| 5 | fool | to-infinitive | people | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Patient | |||||
| 6 | use | present | some people | the phrase | for news | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: agent=Agent phrase=Theme for news=Eventuality | |||
| 7 | dislike | present | people | news not said here | simply property | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer news=Stimulus |
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:adult-life:032-bad-news-protests-and-helping-others.lesson:11.
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): R7-rel-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.
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