Algorithms, bubbles and false balance, sentence 0
An app's feed is chosen by an algorithm, a set of rules a computer follows: it notices what you watch and for how long, then shows you more of the same.
Who acts: algorithm, computer, you · What happens: choose, follow, notice, watch, show · To what, where: feed, set, more, you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Algorithms, bubbles and false balance» 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 (algorithm, computer, you), 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 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 app | det |
| 2 | app | app | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 feed | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 app | case |
| 4 | feed | feed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 chosen | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 chosen | aux:pass |
| 6 | chosen | choose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 algorithm | case |
| 8 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 algorithm | det |
| 9 | algorithm | algorithm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 chosen | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 set | punct |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 set | det |
| 12 | set | set | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 algorithm | appos |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 rules | case |
| 14 | rules | rule | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 set | nmod |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 computer | det |
| 16 | computer | computer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 follows | nsubj |
| 17 | follows | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 set | acl:relcl |
| 18 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 20 notices | punct |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 notices | nsubj |
| 20 | notices | notice | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 chosen | parataxis |
| 21 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 23 watch | obj |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 watch | nsubj |
| 23 | watch | watch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 notices | ccomp |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 long | cc |
| 25 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 long | case |
| 26 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 27 long | advmod |
| 27 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 23 watch | conj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 long | punct |
| 29 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 30 shows | advmod |
| 30 | shows | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 notices | conj |
| 31 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 30 shows | iobj |
| 32 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 30 shows | obj |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 same | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 same | det |
| 35 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 more | nmod |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 chosen | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | choose | present · passive | a algorithm | a app's feed | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | follow | present | a computer | a set of rules not said here | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent set=Theme | ||||
| 3 | notice | present | computer | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | watch | present | you | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme | |||||
| 5 | show | present | computer not said here | more of the same | you | then | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient more=Topic |
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:034-algorithms-bubbles-and-false-balance.lesson:0.
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): R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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