--- title: Tricks are made by people who want clicks, sales or a laugh; underst… — How would we know? Asking experts and spotting t… · tree and pragmatics description: Tricks are made by people who want clicks, sales or a laugh; understanding how they work is how you stop being fooled, never how you fool others. Who acts: people, tricks, understanding, you. A sentence of the lesson «How would we know? Asking experts and spotting tricks» of the myths course of Mova --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/30-how-would-we-know-asking-experts-and-spotting-tricks/6/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Myths](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/) / [How would we know? Asking experts and…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/30-how-would-we-know-asking-experts-and-spotting-tricks/) / 6 # How would we know? Asking experts and spotting tricks, sentence 6 Tricks are made by people who want clicks, sales or a laugh; understanding how they work is how you stop being fooled, never how you fool others. **Who acts:** people, tricks, understanding, you · **What happens:** make, want, work, be, fool, not fool · **To what, where:** Tricks, clicks, others This is a sentence of the lesson «How would we know? Asking experts and spotting tricks» of the myths 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 (people, tricks, understanding, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:myths:030-how-would-we-know-asking-experts-and-spotting-tricks.lesson:6 # text = Tricks are made by people who want clicks, sales or a laugh; understanding how they work is how you stop being fooled, never how you fool others. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = myths # lesson = 030-how-would-we-know-asking-experts-and-spotting-tricks.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 Tricks trick 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 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 4 by by ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl:agent _ _ 6 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 7 nsubj _ _ 7 want want VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 acl:relcl _ _ 8 clicks click NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obj _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 sales sale NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 conj _ _ 11 or or CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 laugh laugh NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 conj _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT : _ 3 punct _ _ 15 understanding understanding NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 16 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 18 advmod _ _ 17 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 work work VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 acl:relcl _ _ 19 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 20 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 22 advmod _ _ 21 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 stop stop VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 23 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 24 aux:pass _ _ 24 fooled fool VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 22 xcomp _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 26 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 29 advmod _ _ 27 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 29 advmod _ _ 28 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 29 fool fool VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 30 others other NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obj _ _ 31 . . 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 | people | Tricks | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Product | | 2 | **want** | present | people | clicks and sales or a laugh | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot click=Theme | | 3 | **work** | present | tricks *= trick* | | | | | | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is** | present | understanding | | | | | stop *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **fool** | gerund · passive | understanding *not said here* | | | | | | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP» | | 6 | **not** **fool** | present | you | others | | | | | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent other=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. 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