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title: Not everything wrong is a lie: a mistake fixed with a correction is… — Propaganda and fake news · tree and pragmatics
description: Not everything wrong is a lie: a mistake fixed with a correction is honest, satire is a joke on purpose, and news you simply dislike is not "fake". Who acts: everything, mistake, satire, you. A sentence of the lesson «Propaganda and fake news» of the politics course of Mova's primary school with its
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# Propaganda and fake news, sentence 3

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Not everything wrong is a lie: a mistake fixed with a correction is honest, satire is a joke on purpose, and news you simply dislike is not "fake".

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**Who acts:** everything, mistake, satire, you, news · **What happens:** be, fix, dislike, not be · **To what, where:** lie, mistake, joke, purpose, news · **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 (everything, mistake, satire, you), 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:3
# text = Not everything wrong is a lie: a mistake fixed with a correction is honest, satire is a joke on purpose, and news you simply dislike is not "fake".
# 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
1	Not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	2	advmod	_	_
2	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	6	nsubj	_	_
3	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	lie	lie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	mistake	mistake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
10	fixed	fix	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	correction	correction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
15	honest	honest	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	parataxis	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=15:punct
17	satire	satire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	joke	joke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
21	on	on	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	purpose	purpose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
25	news	news	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
26	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
27	simply	simply	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	dislike	dislike	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	acl:relcl	_	_
29	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
30	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	32	advmod	_	_
31	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	32	punct	_	_
32	fake	fake	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	parataxis	_	_
33	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	32	punct	_	_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | everything | a lie |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **fix** | participle |  | a mistake *not said here* |  |  |  | with a correction | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent with correction=Co-Patient |
| 3 | **is** | present | a mistake |  |  |  |  | honest *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is a** | present | satire | a joke |  | purpose |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **dislike** | present | you | news *not said here* |  |  |  | simply *property* | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer news=Stimulus |
| 6 | **not** **is** *in a quote* | present | news |  |  |  |  | fake *property* | tree rules |

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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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**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. **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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