Olympiad: check the claim and spot the trick ★★★, sentence 10

Propaganda often uses fear, anger, music and colours instead of reasons, may call a whole group "enemies", and shows only the facts that help one side.

Who acts: Propaganda, facts · What happens: use, call, show, help · To what, where: fear, whole group, facts, one side · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: check the claim and spot the trick ★★★» 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 (Propaganda, facts), 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	Propaganda	propaganda	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 uses	nsubj
2	often	often	ADV	_	3 uses	advmod
3	uses	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 uses	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 anger	punct
6	anger	anger	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fear	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 music	punct
8	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fear	conj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 colours	cc
10	colours	colour	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 fear	conj
11	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	13 reasons	case
12	of	of	ADP	_	11 instead	fixed
13	reasons	reason	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 colours	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 call	punct
15	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 call	aux
16	call	call	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 uses	parataxis
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 group	det
18	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 group	amod
19	group	group	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 call	obj
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 enemies	punct
21	enemies	enemy	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 call	obl
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 enemies	punct
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 shows	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 shows	cc
25	shows	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 uses	conj
26	only	only	ADV	_	28 facts	advmod
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 facts	det
28	facts	fact	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 shows	obj
29	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 help	nsubj
30	help	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 facts	acl:relcl
31	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	32 side	nummod
32	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 help	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 uses	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	use	present	Propaganda	fear and anger and music and colours instead reasons	often property	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fear=Patient
2	call	may		a whole group	enemies obl	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent group=Recipient
3	show	present	Propaganda not said here	the facts		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent fact=Recipient
4	help	present	the facts	one side		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent side=Beneficiary

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:042-olympiad-check-the-claim-and-spot-the-trick.lesson:10.

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. 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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