--- title: Computers can make fake videos of real people saying things they nev… — Politicians and promises, as the news reports them · tree and pragmatics description: Computers can make fake videos of real people saying things they never said. Who acts: Computers, real people, 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 (Computers, real people, people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:442-politicians-and-promises-as-the-news-reports-them.lesson:36 # text = Computers can make fake videos of real people saying things they never said. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 442-politicians-and-promises-as-the-news-reports-them.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 Computers computer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 2 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 4 fake fake ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 videos video NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nmod _ _ 9 saying say VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 8 acl _ _ 10 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obj _ _ 11 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 12 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 13 advmod _ _ 13 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 acl:relcl _ _ 14 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | can | Computers | fake videos of real people | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset video=Product | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | real people *not said here* | things | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent thing=Topic | | 3 | **not** **say** *speech: assert* | past | people | things *not said here* | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent thing=Topic | 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:442-politicians-and-promises-as-the-news-reports-them.lesson:36`. **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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