Propaganda and fake news, sentence 8
Fake news is a made-up story made to look like real news; logos are easy to copy, and likes show clicks, not truth.
Who acts: Fake news, made story, logos, likes · What happens: make up, be, make, look, copy, show · To what, where: made story, clicks
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, made story, logos, likes), 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 | 8 story | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 story | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 story | det |
| 5 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 story | amod |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 up | punct |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 made | compound:prt |
| 8 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 story | acl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 look | mark |
| 11 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 made | xcomp |
| 12 | like | like | ADP | _ | 14 news | case |
| 13 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 news | amod |
| 14 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 look | obl |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 story | punct |
| 16 | logos | logo | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 easy | nsubj |
| 17 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 easy | cop |
| 18 | easy | easy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 story | parataxis |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 copy | mark |
| 20 | copy | copy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 easy | xcomp |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 show | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 show | cc |
| 23 | likes | like | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 show | nsubj |
| 24 | show | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 easy | conj |
| 25 | clicks | click | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 show | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 truth | punct |
| 27 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 28 truth | advmod |
| 28 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 clicks | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 story | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- neg
- teacher
- changed polarity=neg
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make up | participle | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | is a | present | Fake news | a made story | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | make | participle | a made story not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | look | to-infinitive | a made story not said here | like real news | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | is | present | logos | easy property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | copy | to-infinitive | logos not said here | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | show | present | likes | clicks and truth | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent click=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:8.
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, 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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