--- title: Think of a cereal advert that shows the toy in the box and never the… — Propaganda and fake news · tree and pragmatics description: Think of a cereal advert that shows the toy in the box and never the sugar; the old war poster "Your country needs YOU" did the same, with a pointing finger and no word about how dangerous war is. Who acts: you, cereal advert, country, war. 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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 (you, cereal advert, country, war), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:politics:031-propaganda-and-fake-news.lesson:1 # text = Think of a cereal advert that shows the toy in the box and never the sugar; the old war poster "Your country needs YOU" did the same, with a pointing finger and no word about how dangerous war is. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = politics # lesson = 031-propaganda-and-fake-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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2 1 Think think VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 cereal cereal NOUN NN _ 5 compound _ _ 5 advert advert NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 6 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 7 nsubj _ _ 7 shows show VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 acl:relcl _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 toy toy NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 box box NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 14 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 16 advmod _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 sugar sugar NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:conj 17 ; ; PUNCT : _ 25 punct _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 19 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 20 war war NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 compound _ _ 21 poster poster NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 22 " " PUNCT `` _ 25 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=21:punct 23 Your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 24 country country NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 25 needs need VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 acl _ _ 26 YOU you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 25 obj _ _ 27 " " PUNCT '' _ 25 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=30:punct 28 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 1 parataxis _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 32 with with ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 33 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 34 pointing pointing NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 compound _ _ 35 finger finger NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=30:obl 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 37 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 38 det _ _ 38 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 conj _ _ 39 about about ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 40 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 41 advmod _ _ 41 dangerous dangerous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 acl _ _ 42 war war NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 nsubj _ _ 43 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 41 cop _ _ 44 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: request - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: changed form=imp, act=request | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **think** *speech: other* | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | of a cereal advert | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **show** | present | a cereal advert | the toy and the sugar | | | | in the box | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent toy=Patient in box=Topic | | 3 | **need** *in a quote* | present | Your country | YOU | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot you=Theme | | 4 | **is** | present | war | | | | | dangerous *property* | tree rules | 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:031-propaganda-and-fake-news.lesson:1`. **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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2. **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/). - ← previous: [Propaganda and fake news, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/31-propaganda-and-fake-news/0/) - next →: [Propaganda and fake news, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/31-propaganda-and-fake-news/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/31-propaganda-and-fake-news/)