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title: Headlines are written to make you click and can be misleading, so re… — Too-good-to-be-true offers, online scams and che… · tree and pragmatics
description: Headlines are written to make you click and can be misleading, so read beyond them and check other sources. Who acts: you. A sentence of the lesson «Too-good-to-be-true offers, online scams and checking the news» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragma
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# Too-good-to-be-true offers, online scams and checking the news, sentence 16

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Headlines are written to make you click and can be misleading, so read beyond them and check other sources.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** write, make, click, be, read, check · **To what, where:** Headlines, you, other sources

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Too-good-to-be-true offers, online scams and checking the news» of the everyday 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 (you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:314-too-good-offers-scams-and-checking-news.lesson:16
# text = Headlines are written to make you click and can be misleading, so read beyond them and check other sources.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 314-too-good-offers-scams-and-checking-news.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): R5-strong ×1
1	Headlines	headline	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	written	write	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	click	click	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	cop	_	_
11	misleading	misleading	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	so	so	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	read	read	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:parataxis
15	beyond	beyond	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	check	check	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
19	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	sources	source	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **write** | present · passive |  | Headlines |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **make** | to-infinitive |  | you |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **click** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | can |  |  |  |  |  | misleading *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **read** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | beyond Headlines *= headline* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **check** | infinitive |  | other sources |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent source=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:everyday:314-too-good-offers-scams-and-checking-news.lesson:16`.

**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.

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

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