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title: Misinformation is false information shared by mistake; disinformatio… — Propaganda and fake news · tree and pragmatics
description: Misinformation is false information shared by mistake; disinformation is false information spread on purpose. Who acts: Misinformation, disinformation. A sentence of the lesson «Propaganda and fake news» of the politics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# Propaganda and fake news, sentence 10

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Misinformation is false information shared by mistake; disinformation is false information spread on purpose.

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**Who acts:** Misinformation, disinformation · **What happens:** be, share, spread · **To what, where:** false information, purpose

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Propaganda and fake news» 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 (Misinformation, disinformation), 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:10
# text = Misinformation is false information shared by mistake; disinformation is false information spread on purpose.
# 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Misinformation	misinformation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	false	false	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	information	information	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	shared	share	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	mistake	mistake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
8	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=4:punct
9	disinformation	disinformation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
11	false	false	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	information	information	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj
13	spread	spread	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	purpose	purpose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:nmod
16	.	.	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 | **is a** | present | Misinformation | false information |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **share** | participle |  | false information *not said here* |  |  |  | by mistake | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | present | disinformation | false information |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **spread** | participle |  | false information *not said here* |  | purpose |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on purpose=Location |

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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:politics:031-propaganda-and-fake-news.lesson:10`.

**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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-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/).

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