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title: A large 2018 study of social media found that false news spread fast… — Ideas on the move: numbers, paper, letters, ches… · tree and pragmatics
description: A large 2018 study of social media found that false news spread faster and further than true news. Who acts: large 2018 study, false news. A sentence of the lesson «Ideas on the move: numbers, paper, letters, chess and news» of the history course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and
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# Ideas on the move: numbers, paper, letters, chess and news, sentence 16

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A large 2018 study of social media found that false news spread faster and further than true news.

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**Who acts:** large 2018 study, false news · **What happens:** find, spread, study · **To what, where:** social media · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Ideas on the move: numbers, paper, letters, chess and news» of the history 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 (large 2018 study, false news), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:history:075-ideas-on-the-move-numbers-paper-letters-chess-and-news.lesson:16
# text = A large 2018 study of social media found that false news spread faster and further than true news.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = history
# lesson = 075-ideas-on-the-move-numbers-paper-letters-chess-and-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	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	2018	2018	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	study	study	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	social	social	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	media	media	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
10	false	false	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	news	news	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	spread	spread	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	ccomp	_	_
13	faster	fast	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	12	advmod	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	further	far	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	13	conj	_	_
16	than	than	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	news	news	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | **find** | past | a large 2018 study of social media |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **spread** | past | false news |  |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **study** |  |  | social media |  |  |  |  | nom study «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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:history:075-ideas-on-the-move-numbers-paper-letters-chess-and-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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