Bots, troll farms and deepfakes in elections, sentence 5

A bot is a computer program that posts by itself as if it were a person; hundreds of almost identical comments in one minute from accounts with no photos are a warning sign.

Who acts: bot, computer program, hundreds · What happens: be, post · To what, where: computer program, person, warning sign

This is a sentence of the lesson «Bots, troll farms and deepfakes in elections» 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 (bot, computer program, hundreds), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 bot	det
2	bot	bot	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 program	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 program	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 program	det
5	computer	computer	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 program	compound
6	program	program	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 posts	nsubj
8	posts	post	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 program	acl:relcl
9	by	by	ADP	_	10 itself	case
10	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	8 posts	obl
11	as	as	SCONJ	_	16 person	mark
12	if	if	SCONJ	_	16 person	mark
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 person	nsubj
14	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 person	cop
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 person	det
16	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 posts	advcl
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	6 program	punct
18	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 sign	nsubj
19	of	of	ADP	_	22 comments	case
20	almost	almost	ADV	_	21 identical	advmod
21	identical	identical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 comments	amod
22	comments	comment	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 hundreds	nmod
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 minute	case
24	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 minute	nummod
25	minute	minute	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 comments	nmod
26	from	from	ADP	_	27 accounts	case
27	accounts	account	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 minute	nmod
28	with	with	ADP	_	30 photos	case
29	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	30 photos	det
30	photos	photo	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 accounts	nmod
31	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 sign	cop
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 sign	det
33	warning	warning	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 sign	compound
34	sign	sign	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 program	parataxis
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 program	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a bot	a computer program		tree rules
2	post	present	a computer program		by bot	vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	is a	past	bot	a person		tree rules
4	is a	present	hundreds of identical comments in one minute from accounts with no photos	a warning sign		tree rules

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:032-bots-troll-farms-and-deepfakes.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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