Propaganda and fake news, sentence 7
When a government controls the TV, it can show only good news about the leader; public broadcasters such as the BBC, ABC or CBC are paid for by the public and meant to report freely.
Who acts: government, it, public · What happens: control, show, pay, mean, report · To what, where: TV, good news, public broadcasters
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 (government, it, public), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 4 controls | mark |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 government | det |
| 3 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 controls | nsubj |
| 4 | controls | control | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 show | advcl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 TV | det |
| 6 | TV | TV | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 controls | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 controls | punct |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 show | nsubj |
| 9 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 show | aux |
| 10 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | only | only | ADV | _ | 13 news | advmod |
| 12 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 news | amod |
| 13 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 show | obj |
| 14 | about | about | ADP | _ | 16 leader | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 leader | det |
| 16 | leader | leader | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 news | nmod |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 paid | punct |
| 18 | public | public | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 broadcasters | amod |
| 19 | broadcasters | broadcaster | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 paid | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 23 BBC | case |
| 21 | as | as | ADP | _ | 20 such | fixed |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 BBC | det |
| 23 | BBC | BBC | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 broadcasters | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 ABC | punct |
| 25 | ABC | ABC | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 BBC | conj |
| 26 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 27 CBC | cc |
| 27 | CBC | CBC | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 ABC | conj |
| 28 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 paid | aux:pass |
| 29 | paid | pay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 show | parataxis |
| 30 | for | for | ADP | _ | 33 public | case |
| 31 | by | by | ADP | _ | 33 public | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 public | det |
| 33 | public | public | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 paid | obl:agent |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 meant | cc |
| 35 | meant | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 paid | conj |
| 36 | to | to | PART | _ | 37 report | mark |
| 37 | report | report | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 meant | xcomp |
| 38 | freely | freely | ADV | _ | 37 report | advmod |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 show | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | control | present | a government | the TV | vn enforce-63 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tv=Theme | ||||
| 2 | show | can | it | good news | about the leader | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent news=Recipient about leader=Topic | |||
| 3 | pay | present · passive | the public | public broadcasters such the BBC and ABC or CBC | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Asset | ||||
| 4 | mean | past | the public not said here | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | report not said to happen | to-infinitive | the public not said here | freely property | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP»: 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:7.
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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, 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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