Propaganda and fake news, sentence 12
Propaganda often uses fear, anger, music and colours instead of reasons, and may call a whole group "enemies".
Who acts: Propaganda · What happens: use, call · To what, where: fear, whole group · 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 (Propaganda), 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 | 3 uses | nsubj |
| 2 | often | often | ADV | _ | 3 uses | advmod |
| 3 | uses | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 uses | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 anger | punct |
| 6 | anger | anger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fear | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 music | punct |
| 8 | music | music | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fear | conj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 colours | cc |
| 10 | colours | colour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 fear | conj |
| 11 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=ADP | 13 reasons | case |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 instead | fixed |
| 13 | reasons | reason | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 uses | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 call | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 call | cc |
| 16 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 call | aux |
| 17 | call | call | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 uses | conj |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 group | det |
| 19 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 group | amod |
| 20 | group | group | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 call | obj |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 enemies | punct |
| 22 | enemies | enemy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 call | obl |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 enemies | punct |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 uses | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | present | Propaganda | fear and anger and music and colours | instead reasons; often property | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fear=Patient | |||
| 2 | call | may | Propaganda not said here | a whole group | enemies obl | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent group=Recipient |
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:12.
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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