--- title: Fake news is something else: a made-up story dressed up to look like… — Propaganda and fake news · tree and pragmatics description: Fake news is something else: a made-up story dressed up to look like real news, with a copied logo and lots of likes, though likes only show that people clicked. Who acts: Fake news, likes, people. 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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 (Fake news, likes, people), 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:2 # text = Fake news is something else: a made-up story dressed up to look like real news, with a copied logo and lots of likes, though likes only show that people clicked. # 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): R4-particle ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 Fake fake ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 news news NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 0 root _ _ 5 else else ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 6 : : PUNCT : _ 4 punct _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 8 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 11 amod _ _ 9 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 8 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=10:punct 10 up up ADP RP _ 8 compound:prt _ Agree=R4-particle|Haiku=8:compound 11 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 appos _ _ 12 dressed dress VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 11 acl _ _ 13 up up ADP RP _ 12 compound:prt _ _ 14 to to PART TO _ 15 mark _ _ 15 look look VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 advcl _ _ 16 like like ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 news news NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 20 with with ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 copied copy VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 23 amod _ _ 23 logo logo NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 lots lot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 conj _ _ 26 of of ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 likes like NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nmod _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 29 though though SCONJ IN _ 32 mark _ _ 30 likes like NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 nsubj _ _ 31 only only ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 32 show show VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 advcl _ _ 33 that that SCONJ IN _ 35 mark _ _ 34 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 nsubj _ _ 35 clicked click VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 32 ccomp _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: pos - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | Fake news | something | | | | else *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **make up** | participle | | | | | | | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **dress up** | participle | | a made story *not said here* | | | | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **look** | to-infinitive | | | | | | like real news; with a copied logo and lots of likes | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 5 | **copy** | participle | | | | | | | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **show** | present | likes | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 7 | **click** | past | people | | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location | 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:2`. **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): R4-particle ×1, R6-punct-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, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/31-propaganda-and-fake-news/1/) - next →: [Propaganda and fake news, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/31-propaganda-and-fake-news/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/31-propaganda-and-fake-news/)