Algorithms, bubbles and false balance, sentence 3

TV can mislead in the opposite way: putting one scientist and one doubter side by side can make a question look 50-50 when the experts mostly agree; that is false balance.

Who acts: TV, putting, question, experts, that · What happens: mislead, put, make, look, agree, be · To what, where: opposite way, one scientist, question, 50-50, false balance

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 (TV, putting, question, experts), 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	TV	TV	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 mislead	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 mislead	aux
3	mislead	mislead	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	7 way	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 way	det
6	opposite	opposite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 way	amod
7	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 mislead	obl
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	3 mislead	punct
9	putting	put	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	19 make	csubj
10	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 scientist	nummod
11	scientist	scientist	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 putting	obj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 side	cc
13	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 doubter	nummod
14	doubter	doubter	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 side	compound
15	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 scientist	conj
16	by	by	ADP	_	17 side	case
17	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 side	nmod
18	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 make	aux
19	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 mislead	parataxis
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 question	det
21	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 make	obj
22	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 make	xcomp
23	50-50	50-50	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	22 look	obj
24	when	when	SCONJ	_	28 agree	mark
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 experts	det
26	experts	expert	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 agree	nsubj
27	mostly	mostly	ADV	_	28 agree	advmod
28	agree	agree	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 look	advcl
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 balance	punct
30	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	33 balance	nsubj
31	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 balance	cop
32	false	false	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 balance	amod
33	balance	balance	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 mislead	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 mislead	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	mislead	can	TV		the opposite way		vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	put	gerund		one scientist and doubter side by side			vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent scientist=Goal
3	make	can	putting	a question			tree rules
4	look	infinitive	a question not said here	50-50			vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme 50-50=Attribute
5	agree speech: agree	present	the experts			mostly property	vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	is a	present	that	false balance			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:034-algorithms-bubbles-and-false-balance.lesson:3.

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): R5-strong ×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.

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