Propaganda and fake news, sentence 2
Fake news is something else: a made-up story dressed up to look like real news, with a copied logo and lots of likes, though likes only show that people clicked.
Who acts: Fake news, likes, people · What happens: be, make up, dress up, look, copy, show · To what, where: something, made story · 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 (Fake news, likes, people), 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 | Fake | fake | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 news | amod |
| 2 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 something | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 something | cop |
| 4 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | root | root |
| 5 | else | else | ADV | _ | 4 something | advmod |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 something | punct |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 story | det |
| 8 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 story | amod |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 made | punct |
| 10 | up | up | ADP | _ | 8 made | compound:prt |
| 11 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 something | appos |
| 12 | dressed | dress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 story | acl |
| 13 | up | up | ADP | _ | 12 dressed | compound:prt |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 look | mark |
| 15 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 dressed | advcl |
| 16 | like | like | ADP | _ | 18 news | case |
| 17 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 news | amod |
| 18 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 look | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 logo | punct |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 logo | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 logo | det |
| 22 | copied | copy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 logo | amod |
| 23 | logo | logo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 look | obl |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 lots | cc |
| 25 | lots | lot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 logo | conj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 likes | case |
| 27 | likes | like | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 lots | nmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 likes | punct |
| 29 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 32 show | mark |
| 30 | likes | like | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 show | nsubj |
| 31 | only | only | ADV | _ | 32 show | advmod |
| 32 | show | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 something | advcl |
| 33 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 35 clicked | mark |
| 34 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 clicked | nsubj |
| 35 | clicked | click | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 show | ccomp |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 something | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- pos
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Fake news | something | else property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | make up | participle | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | dress up | participle | a made story not said here | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | look | to-infinitive | like real news; with a copied logo and lots of likes | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | copy | participle | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 6 | show | present | likes | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 7 | click | past | people | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location |
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:2.
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): R4-particle ×1, R6-punct-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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