--- title: But a joke can turn into a lie once it loses its label, a six-second… — Memes, clips and jokes about politicians · tree and pragmatics description: But a joke can turn into a lie once it loses its label, a six-second clip can hide what came before and after, and a computer can now make a fake video that looks real. Who acts: joke, second clip, computer, fake video. 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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 (joke, second clip, computer, fake video), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:politics:013-memes-clips-and-jokes-about-politicians.lesson:4 # text = But a joke can turn into a lie once it loses its label, a six-second clip can hide what came before and after, and a computer can now make a fake video that looks real. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = politics # lesson = 013-memes-clips-and-jokes-about-politicians.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 But but CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 joke joke NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 4 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 5 turn turn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 6 into into ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 lie lie NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 9 once once SCONJ IN NumType=Mult 11 mark _ _ 10 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 loses lose VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 advcl _ _ 12 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 label label NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 16 six six NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 18 nummod _ _ 17 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 16 punct _ _ 18 second second ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 19 amod _ _ 19 clip clip NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 20 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 21 hide hide VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ _ 22 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 23 nsubj _ _ 23 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 ccomp _ _ 24 before before ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 after after ADV RB _ 24 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:obl|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 computer computer NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 31 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ _ 32 now now ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 33 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=21:conj 34 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 35 fake fake ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 video video NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obj _ _ 37 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 38 nsubj _ _ 38 looks look VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 36 acl:relcl _ _ 39 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 xcomp _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **turn** | can | a joke | | | a lie | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into lie=Trajectory | | 2 | **lose** | present | joke | joke's label | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent label=Eventuality | | 3 | **hide** | can | a second clip | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **come** | past | | | | | | before *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **make** | can | a computer | a fake video | | | now | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset video=Product | | 6 | **look** | present | a fake video | | | | | real *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 7 | **label** | | joke | | | | | | nom label «communication transitive»: poss=agent | 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:politics:013-memes-clips-and-jokes-about-politicians.lesson:4`. **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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