Propaganda and fake news, sentence 0

Propaganda is a message made to push lots of people to think or act one way: it shows only the facts that help and leaves out the rest.

Who acts: Propaganda, facts · What happens: be, make, push, think, act, show · To what, where: message, lots, one way, facts, rest

This is a sentence of the lesson «Propaganda and fake news» 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 (Propaganda, facts), 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	Propaganda	propaganda	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 message	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 message	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 message	det
4	message	message	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 message	acl
6	to	to	PART	_	7 push	mark
7	push	push	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 made	advcl
8	lots	lot	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 push	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 people	case
10	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 lots	nmod
11	to	to	PART	_	12 think	mark
12	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 people	acl
13	or	or	CCONJ	_	14 act	cc
14	act	act	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 think	conj
15	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 way	nummod
16	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 act	obj
17	:	:	PUNCT	_	19 shows	punct
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 shows	nsubj
19	shows	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 message	parataxis
20	only	only	ADV	_	22 facts	advmod
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 facts	det
22	facts	fact	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 shows	obj
23	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 help	nsubj
24	help	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 facts	acl:relcl
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 leaves	cc
26	leaves	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 help	conj
27	out	out	ADP	_	26 leaves	compound:prt
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 rest	det
29	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 leaves	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 message	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	present	Propaganda	a message	tree rules
2	make	participle		a message not said here	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
3	push	to-infinitive		lots of people	vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Theme
4	think speech: other	to-infinitive			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	act	infinitive		one way	vn act-114-1-1 «NP V PP.predicate»: agent=Agent way=Eventuality
6	show	present	Propaganda	the facts	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent fact=Recipient
7	help	present	the facts		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
8	leave out	present	the facts not said here	the rest	vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rest=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:031-propaganda-and-fake-news.lesson:0.

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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