How would we know? Asking experts and spotting tricks, sentence 6

Tricks are made by people who want clicks, sales or a laugh; understanding how they work is how you stop being fooled, never how you fool others.

Who acts: people, tricks, understanding, you · What happens: make, want, work, be, fool, not fool · To what, where: Tricks, clicks, others

This is a sentence of the lesson «How would we know? Asking experts and spotting tricks» of the myths 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 (people, tricks, understanding, you), 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	Tricks	trick	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 made	nsubj:pass
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 made	aux:pass
3	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	5 people	case
5	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 made	obl:agent
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 want	nsubj
7	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 people	acl:relcl
8	clicks	click	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 want	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 sales	punct
10	sales	sale	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 clicks	conj
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 laugh	cc
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 laugh	det
13	laugh	laugh	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 clicks	conj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	3 made	punct
15	understanding	understanding	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 stop	nsubj
16	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	18 work	advmod
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 work	nsubj
18	work	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 understanding	acl:relcl
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 stop	cop
20	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	22 stop	advmod
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 stop	nsubj
22	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 made	conj
23	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 fooled	aux:pass
24	fooled	fool	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 stop	xcomp
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 fool	punct
26	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	29 fool	advmod
27	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	29 fool	advmod
28	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	29 fool	nsubj
29	fool	fool	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 made	conj
30	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 fool	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 made	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	make	present · passive	people	Tricks		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Product
2	want	present	people	clicks and sales or a laugh		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot click=Theme
3	work	present	tricks = trick			vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is	present	understanding		stop property	tree rules
5	fool	gerund · passive	understanding not said here			vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»
6	not fool	present	you	others		vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent other=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:myths:030-how-would-we-know-asking-experts-and-spotting-tricks.lesson:6.

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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