Animals in the news: true stories, fakes and how to read them, sentence 8

After almost every big flood a fake picture of a shark swimming in a street spreads online; it is usually the same old edited photo, and checking where it first appeared shows it is fake.

Who acts: shark, fake picture, picture, it, checking · What happens: swim, spread, edit, be, check, appear · To what, where: street, same old edited photo · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Animals in the news: true stories, fakes and how to read them» of the biology 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 (shark, fake picture, picture, it), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

Pragmatics

form

statement

act

assert

voice

narrator

polarity

none

teacher

changed act=assert

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.

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