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title: Headlines are written to make you click, videos and voices can be fa… — Too-good-to-be-true offers, online scams and che… · tree and pragmatics
description: Headlines are written to make you click, videos and voices can be faked, satire sites invent news as jokes, and bots repeat a message to make it look popular. Who acts: you, satire sites, bots, message. A sentence of the lesson «Too-good-to-be-true offers, online scams and checking the news» of the 
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# Too-good-to-be-true offers, online scams and checking the news, sentence 6

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Headlines are written to make you click, videos and voices can be faked, satire sites invent news as jokes, and bots repeat a message to make it look popular.

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**Who acts:** you, satire sites, bots, message · **What happens:** write, make, click, fake, invent, repeat · **To what, where:** Headlines, you, videos, news, message

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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, satire sites, bots, message), 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:6
# text = Headlines are written to make you click, videos and voices can be faked, satire sites invent news as jokes, and bots repeat a message to make it look popular.
# 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): R3-conj-first ×1, 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	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
9	videos	video	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	voices	voice	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
12	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	faked	fake	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	satire	satire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	sites	site	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
18	invent	invent	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
19	news	news	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
20	as	as	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	jokes	joke	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	bots	bot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
25	repeat	repeat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=14:conj
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	message	message	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=27:acl
30	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	obj	_	_
31	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	xcomp	_	_
32	popular	popular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	xcomp	_	_
33	.	.	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 | **fake** | can · passive |  | videos and voices |  |  |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 5 | **invent** | present | satire sites | news |  |  |  | as jokes | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent news=Result as joke=Attribute |
| 6 | **repeat** | present | bots | a message |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent message=Eventuality |
| 7 | **make** | to-infinitive | bots *not said here* | message |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **look** | infinitive | message *not said here* |  |  |  |  | popular *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |

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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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**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): R3-conj-first ×1, 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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