Too-good-to-be-true offers, online scams and checking the news, sentence 18
Satire is made-up news written as a joke, like The Onion; it can fool people who do not know it is a joke.
Who acts: Satire, people · What happens: make, be, write, fool, not know · To what, where: made up news, people, joke · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Too-good-to-be-true offers, online scams and checking the news» of the everyday 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 (Satire, 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 | Satire | satire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 news | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 news | cop |
| 3 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 news | amod |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 news | punct |
| 5 | up | up | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 news | compound |
| 6 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | written | write | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 news | acl |
| 8 | as | as | ADP | _ | 10 joke | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 joke | det |
| 10 | joke | joke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 written | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 Onion | punct |
| 12 | like | like | ADP | _ | 14 Onion | case |
| 13 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Onion | det |
| 14 | Onion | onion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 joke | nmod |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 fool | punct |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 fool | nsubj |
| 17 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 fool | aux |
| 18 | fool | fool | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 news | parataxis |
| 19 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 fool | obj |
| 20 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 know | nsubj |
| 21 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 know | aux |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 know | advmod |
| 23 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 people | acl:relcl |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 joke | nsubj |
| 25 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 joke | cop |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 joke | det |
| 27 | joke | joke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 know | ccomp |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 news | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | participle | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||||
| 2 | is a | present · passive | made up news | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | write | participle | made up news not said here | as a joke like the Onion | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as joke=Attribute | ||||
| 4 | fool | can | Satire | people | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Patient | ||||
| 5 | not know | present · do-support | people | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 6 | is a | present | Satire | a joke | 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, 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:everyday:314-too-good-offers-scams-and-checking-news.lesson:18.
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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