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title: Videos can be cut, sped up or made by computers; check whether news… — US elections and the president, as reported · tree and pragmatics
description: Videos can be cut, sped up or made by computers; check whether news sites from different sides reported a clip, and look for the full video. Who acts: news sites. A sentence of the lesson «US elections and the president, as reported» of the politics course of Mova's primary school with its dependenc
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# US elections and the president, as reported, sentence 22

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Videos can be cut, sped up or made by computers; check whether news sites from different sides reported a clip, and look for the full video.

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**Who acts:** news sites · **What happens:** cut, speed up, make, check, report, look · **To what, where:** Videos, clip

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This is a sentence of the lesson «US elections and the president, as reported» of the politics 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 (news sites), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:politics:016-us-elections-and-the-president-as-reported.lesson:22
# text = Videos can be cut, sped up or made by computers; check whether news sites from different sides reported a clip, and look for the full video.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = politics
# lesson = 016-us-elections-and-the-president-as-reported.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	Videos	video	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	cut	cut	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	sped	speed	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
7	up	up	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
10	by	by	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	computers	computer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	check	check	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
14	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
15	news	news	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	sites	site	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
17	from	from	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	sides	side	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	_
20	reported	report	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	ccomp	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	clip	clip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
26	for	for	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	video	video	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **cut** | can · passive |  | Videos |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
| 2 | **speed up** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **make** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | by computers | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 4 | **check** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **report** | past | news sites from different sides | a clip |  |  |  |  | vn prosecute-33.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clip=Patient |
| 6 | **look** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | for the full video | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for video=Theme |

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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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**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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