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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, readers), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:335-fake-websites-fake-news-bots-skipping-class-surprises-and-trust.lesson:13 # text = Satire is made-up news written as a joke; it is not lying when readers know it is a joke, but it can fool people who don't. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 335-fake-websites-fake-news-bots-skipping-class-surprises-and-trust.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 ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Satire satire NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj:pass _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 aux:pass _ _ 3 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 4 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 3 punct _ _ 5 up up NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:compound 6 news news NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 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 : _ 15 punct _ _ 12 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 13 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 14 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 15 advmod _ _ 15 lying lie VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 conj _ _ 16 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 18 advmod _ _ 17 readers reader NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nsubj _ _ 18 know know VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 advcl _ _ 19 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 20 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 joke joke NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 ccomp _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 24 but but CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 25 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 26 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 27 fool fool VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:conj 28 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obj _ _ 29 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 30 nsubj _ _ 30 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 acl:relcl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=28:acl:relcl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 30 advmod _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 3 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** | present · passive | | Satire | | | | news *obl* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | | 2 | **write** | participle | | news *not said here* | | | | as a joke | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as joke=Attribute | | 3 | **not** **lie** | present · progressive | satire | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **know** | present | readers | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **is a** | present | satire | a joke | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **fool** | can | satire | people | | | | | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Patient | 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:335-fake-websites-fake-news-bots-skipping-class-surprises-and-trust.lesson:13`. **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 ×2, R8-pos-agree ×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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