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title: Using fake voices to trick voters is treated seriously and can be ag… — In the news: invented court cases and an airline… · tree and pragmatics
description: Using fake voices to trick voters is treated seriously and can be against the law; official sources are the place to check voting rules. Who acts: Using, official sources. A sentence of the lesson «In the news: invented court cases and an airline's chatbot» of the ai course of Mova's primary school 
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# In the news: invented court cases and an airline's chatbot, sentence 15

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Using fake voices to trick voters is treated seriously and can be against the law; official sources are the place to check voting rules.

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**Who acts:** Using, official sources · **What happens:** use, trick, treat, be, check · **To what, where:** fake voices, voters, place, voting rules

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This is a sentence of the lesson «In the news: invented court cases and an airline's chatbot» of the ai 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 (Using, official sources), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:ai:020-news-court-cases-airline.lesson:15
# text = Using fake voices to trick voters is treated seriously and can be against the law; official sources are the place to check voting rules.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = ai
# lesson = 020-news-court-cases-airline.lesson
# annotation = 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
1	Using	use	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	csubj	_	_
2	fake	fake	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	voices	voice	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	trick	trick	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	advcl	_	_
6	voters	voter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	treated	treat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	seriously	seriously	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
11	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
12	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	cop	_	_
13	against	against	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	law	law	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	official	official	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	sources	source	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
19	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	parataxis	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	check	check	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	acl	_	_
24	voting	voting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	rules	rule	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | gerund |  | fake voices |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent voice=Patient |
| 2 | **trick** | to-infinitive |  | voters |  |  |  |  | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent voter=Patient |
| 3 | **treat** | present · passive | Using |  |  |  |  | seriously *property* | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient» |
| 4 | **is** | can | Using *not said here* |  |  |  |  | against the law | tree rules |
| 5 | **is a** | present | official sources | the place |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **check** | to-infinitive | Using *not said here* | voting rules |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rule=Theme |

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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.

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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:ai:020-news-court-cases-airline.lesson:15`.

**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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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