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title: Propaganda often uses fear, anger, music and colours instead of reas… — Propaganda and fake news · tree and pragmatics
description: Propaganda often uses fear, anger, music and colours instead of reasons, and may call a whole group "enemies". Who acts: Propaganda. 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 every clause.
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# Propaganda and fake news, sentence 12

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Propaganda often uses fear, anger, music and colours instead of reasons, and may call a whole group "enemies".

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**Who acts:** Propaganda · **What happens:** use, call · **To what, where:** fear, whole group · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Propaganda), 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:12
# text = Propaganda often uses fear, anger, music and colours instead of reasons, and may call a whole group "enemies".
# 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): no change
1	Propaganda	propaganda	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	often	often	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	uses	use	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	fear	fear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	anger	anger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	music	music	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	colours	colour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
11	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADP	13	case	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	fixed	_	_
13	reasons	reason	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	call	call	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	group	group	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
21	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	_
22	enemies	enemy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
23	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	22	punct	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **use** | present | Propaganda | fear and anger and music and colours |  |  |  | instead reasons; often *property* | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fear=Patient |
| 2 | **call** | may | Propaganda *not said here* | a whole group |  |  |  | enemies *obl* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent group=Recipient |

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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:12`.

**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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