Propaganda and fake news, sentence 1
Think of a cereal advert that shows the toy in the box and never the sugar; the old war poster "Your country needs YOU" did the same, with a pointing finger and no word about how dangerous war is.
Who acts: you, cereal advert, country, war · What happens: think, show, need, be · To what, where: toy, YOU · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (you, cereal advert, country, war), 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 | Think | think | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 advert | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 advert | det |
| 4 | cereal | cereal | NOUN | _ | 5 advert | compound |
| 5 | advert | advert | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Think | obl |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 shows | nsubj |
| 7 | shows | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 advert | acl:relcl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 toy | det |
| 9 | toy | toy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 shows | obj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 box | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 box | det |
| 12 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 shows | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 sugar | cc |
| 14 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 16 sugar | advmod |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 sugar | det |
| 16 | sugar | sugar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 toy | conj |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 needs | punct |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 poster | det |
| 19 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 poster | amod |
| 20 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 poster | compound |
| 21 | poster | poster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 same | nsubj |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 needs | punct |
| 23 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 country | nmod:poss |
| 24 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 needs | nsubj |
| 25 | needs | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 poster | acl |
| 26 | YOU | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 needs | obj |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 needs | punct |
| 28 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 same | aux |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 same | det |
| 30 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Think | parataxis |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 finger | punct |
| 32 | with | with | ADP | _ | 35 finger | case |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 finger | det |
| 34 | pointing | pointing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 finger | compound |
| 35 | finger | finger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 did | obl |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 word | cc |
| 37 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 38 word | det |
| 38 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 finger | conj |
| 39 | about | about | ADP | _ | 42 war | case |
| 40 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 41 dangerous | advmod |
| 41 | dangerous | dangerous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 word | acl |
| 42 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 dangerous | nsubj |
| 43 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 41 dangerous | cop |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Think | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- command
- act
- request
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed form=imp, act=request
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | imperative | you not said here | of a cereal advert | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | show | present | a cereal advert | the toy and the sugar | in the box | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent toy=Patient in box=Topic | |||
| 3 | need in a quote | present | Your country | YOU | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot you=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is | present | war | dangerous property | 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:politics:031-propaganda-and-fake-news.lesson:1.
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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2. 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.
See the release 0.4.
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