--- title: Satire is made-up news written as a joke, like The Onion; it can foo… — Too-good-to-be-true offers, online scams and che… · tree and pragmatics description: Satire is made-up news written as a joke, like The Onion; it can fool people who do not know it is a joke. Who acts: Satire, people. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Satire, people), 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:18 # text = Satire is made-up news written as a joke, like The Onion; it can fool people who do not know it is a joke. # 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): no change 1 Satire satire NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj:pass _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 3 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 amod _ _ 4 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 6 punct _ _ 5 up up NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 news news NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 7 written write VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 acl _ _ 8 as as ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 joke joke NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 like like ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 Onion onion NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT : _ 18 punct _ _ 16 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 17 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 18 fool fool VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 parataxis _ _ 19 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obj _ _ 20 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 23 nsubj _ _ 21 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 22 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 23 advmod _ _ 23 know know VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 acl:relcl _ _ 24 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 25 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 cop _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 joke joke NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 ccomp _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | participle | | | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | | 2 | **is a** | present · passive | | made up news | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **write** | participle | | made up news *not said here* | | | | as a joke like the Onion | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as joke=Attribute | | 4 | **fool** | can | Satire | people | | | | | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Patient | | 5 | **not** **know** | present · do-support | people | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 6 | **is a** | present | Satire | a joke | | | | | 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](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:18`. **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. 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