--- title: Propaganda is a message made to push people towards one view, often… — Propaganda and fake news · tree and pragmatics description: Propaganda is a message made to push people towards one view, often by a government or a group, and it picks only the facts that help. Who acts: Propaganda, facts. 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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 (Propaganda, facts), 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:5 # text = Propaganda is a message made to push people towards one view, often by a government or a group, and it picks only the facts that help. # 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 4 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 message message NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 5 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 acl _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 7 push push VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 advcl _ _ 8 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obj _ _ 9 towards towards ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 11 nummod _ _ 11 view view NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 13 often often ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 14 by by ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 government government NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 appos _ _ 17 or or CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 group group NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 conj _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 22 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 picks pick VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 24 only only ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 facts fact NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obj _ _ 27 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 28 nsubj _ _ 28 help help VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 acl:relcl _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 4 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 | **is a** | present | Propaganda | a message | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **make** | participle | | a message *not said here* | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | | 3 | **push** | to-infinitive | | people | | one view | | | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent people=Theme towards view=Trajectory | | 4 | **pick** | present | Propaganda | the facts | | | | | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fact=Patient | | 5 | **help** | present | the facts | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | 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:5`. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Propaganda and fake news, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/31-propaganda-and-fake-news/4/) - next →: [Propaganda and fake news, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/31-propaganda-and-fake-news/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/31-propaganda-and-fake-news/)