Propaganda and fake news, sentence 5
Propaganda is a message made to push people towards one view, often by a government or a group, and it picks only the facts that help.
Who acts: Propaganda, facts · What happens: be, make, push, pick, help · To what, where: message, people, one view, facts
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 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 push | obj |
| 9 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 11 view | case |
| 10 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 view | nummod |
| 11 | view | view | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 push | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 government | punct |
| 13 | often | often | ADV | _ | 16 government | advmod |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 government | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 government | det |
| 16 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 message | appos |
| 17 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 19 group | cc |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 group | det |
| 19 | group | group | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 government | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 picks | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 picks | cc |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 picks | nsubj |
| 23 | picks | pick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 made | conj |
| 24 | only | only | ADV | _ | 26 facts | advmod |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 facts | det |
| 26 | facts | fact | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 picks | obj |
| 27 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 help | nsubj |
| 28 | help | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 facts | acl:relcl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 message | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | 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 | people | one view | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent people=Theme towards view=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | pick | present | Propaganda | the facts | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fact=Patient | ||||
| 5 | help | present | the facts | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
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:5.
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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