--- title: When a government controls the TV, it can show only good news about… — Propaganda and fake news · tree and pragmatics description: When a government controls the TV, it can show only good news about the leader; public broadcasters such as the BBC, ABC or CBC are paid for by the public and meant to report freely. Who acts: government, it, public. 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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 (government, it, public), 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:7 # text = When a government controls the TV, it can show only good news about the leader; public broadcasters such as the BBC, ABC or CBC are paid for by the public and meant to report freely. # 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, R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 When when SCONJ WRB _ 4 mark _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 government government NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 controls control VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 advcl _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 TV TV NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 8 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 9 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 10 show show VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 11 only only ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:advmod 12 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 news news NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 14 about about ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 leader leader NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod _ _ 17 ; ; PUNCT : _ 29 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=10:punct 18 public public ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 broadcasters broadcaster NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 nsubj:pass _ _ 20 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP 23 case _ _ 21 as as ADP IN _ 20 fixed _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 BBC BBC PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 nmod _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 25 ABC ABC PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:nmod 26 or or CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 CBC CBC PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 conj _ _ 28 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 aux:pass _ _ 29 paid pay VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 10 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:conj 30 for for ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 31 by by ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 public public NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl:agent _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 35 meant mean VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 conj _ _ 36 to to PART TO _ 37 mark _ _ 37 report report VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 35 xcomp _ _ 38 freely freely ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **control** | present | a government | the TV | | | | | vn enforce-63 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tv=Theme | | 2 | **show** | can | it | good news | | | | about the leader | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent news=Recipient about leader=Topic | | 3 | **pay** | present · passive | the public | public broadcasters such the BBC and ABC or CBC | | | | | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Asset | | 4 | **mean** | past | the public *not said here* | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **report** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the public *not said here* | | | | | freely *property* | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP»: 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:7`. **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, R5-strong ×2, 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, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/31-propaganda-and-fake-news/6/) - next →: [Propaganda and fake news, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/31-propaganda-and-fake-news/8/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/31-propaganda-and-fake-news/)