--- title: In the Second World War, posters saying "Careless talk costs lives"… — Propaganda and fake news · tree and pragmatics description: In the Second World War, posters saying "Careless talk costs lives" told people not to chat about soldiers or ships; people disagree whether safety messages like this count as propaganda. Who acts: posters, Careless talk, people, safety messages. 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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 (posters, Careless talk, people, safety messages), 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:14 # text = In the Second World War, posters saying "Careless talk costs lives" told people not to chat about soldiers or ships; people disagree whether safety messages like this count as propaganda. # 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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 3 Second Second ADJ NNP Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 5 amod _ _ 4 World World PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 War War PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 7 posters poster NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nsubj _ _ 8 saying say VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 7 acl _ _ 9 " " PUNCT `` _ 12 punct _ _ 10 Careless careless ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 talk talk NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 12 costs cost VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 ccomp _ _ 13 lives life NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obj _ _ 14 " " PUNCT '' _ 12 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=15:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_ 15 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 16 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obj _ _ 17 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 19 advmod _ _ 18 to to PART TO _ 19 mark _ _ 19 chat chat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 xcomp _ _ 20 about about ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 soldiers soldier NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obl _ _ 22 or or CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 ships ship NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 conj _ _ 24 ; ; PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 25 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nsubj _ _ 26 disagree disagree VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:conj 27 whether whether SCONJ IN _ 32 mark _ _ 28 safety safety NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 compound _ _ 29 messages message NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 nsubj _ _ 30 like like ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 29 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=32:obl 32 count count VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 ccomp _ _ 33 as as ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 propaganda propaganda NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 15 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | posters *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **cost** *in a quote* | present | Careless talk | lives | | | | | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme life=Value | | 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | posters | | people | the Second World War | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent people=Recipient clause=Topic | | 4 | **not** **chat** *speech: other* *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | posters *not said here* | | | | | about soldiers or ships | vn chit\_chat-37.6 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about soldier=Topic | | 5 | **disagree** | present | people | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **count** | present | safety messages like this | | | | | as propaganda | vn masquerade-29.6 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as propaganda=Attribute | 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:14`. **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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Propaganda and fake news, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/31-propaganda-and-fake-news/13/) - next →: [Propaganda and fake news, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/31-propaganda-and-fake-news/15/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/31-propaganda-and-fake-news/)