Propaganda and fake news, sentence 14

In the Second World War, posters saying "Careless talk costs lives" told people not to chat about soldiers or ships; people disagree whether safety messages like this count as propaganda.

Who acts: posters, Careless talk, people, safety messages · What happens: say, cost, tell, not chat, disagree, count · To what, where: lives, people, Second World War · 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 (posters, Careless talk, people, safety messages), 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	In	in	ADP	_	5 War	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 War	det
3	Second	Second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 War	amod
4	World	World	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 War	compound
5	War	War	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 told	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 told	punct
7	posters	poster	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 told	nsubj
8	saying	say	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 posters	acl
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 costs	punct
10	Careless	careless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 talk	amod
11	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 costs	nsubj
12	costs	cost	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 saying	ccomp
13	lives	life	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 costs	obj
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 costs	punct
15	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 told	obj
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 chat	advmod
18	to	to	PART	_	19 chat	mark
19	chat	chat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 told	xcomp
20	about	about	ADP	_	21 soldiers	case
21	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 chat	obl
22	or	or	CCONJ	_	23 ships	cc
23	ships	ship	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 soldiers	conj
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 disagree	punct
25	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 disagree	nsubj
26	disagree	disagree	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 told	parataxis
27	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	32 count	mark
28	safety	safety	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 messages	compound
29	messages	message	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 count	nsubj
30	like	like	ADP	_	31 this	case
31	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	29 messages	nmod
32	count	count	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 disagree	ccomp
33	as	as	ADP	_	34 propaganda	case
34	propaganda	propaganda	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 count	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 told	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	gerund	posters not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	cost in a quote	present	Careless talk	lives				vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme life=Value
3	tell speech: assert	past	posters		people	the Second World War		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent people=Recipient clause=Topic
4	not chat speech: other not said to happen	to-infinitive	posters not said here				about soldiers or ships	vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about soldier=Topic
5	disagree	present	people					tree rules
6	count	present	safety messages like this				as propaganda	vn masquerade-29.6 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as propaganda=Attribute

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:14.

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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1. 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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