--- title: Fake news is a made-up story made to look like real news; logos are… — Propaganda and fake news · tree and pragmatics description: Fake news is a made-up story made to look like real news; logos are easy to copy, and likes show clicks, not truth. Who acts: Fake news, made story, logos, likes. 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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, made story, logos, likes), 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:8 # text = Fake news is a made-up story made to look like real news; logos are easy to copy, and likes show clicks, not truth. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Fake fake ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 news news NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 5 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 amod _ _ 6 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 7 punct _ _ 7 up up ADP RP _ 5 compound:prt _ Agree=R4-particle|Haiku=5:compound 8 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 9 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 acl _ _ 10 to to PART TO _ 11 mark _ _ 11 look look VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 xcomp _ _ 12 like like ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 news news NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 16 logos logo NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nsubj _ _ 17 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 cop _ _ 18 easy easy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 parataxis _ _ 19 to to PART TO _ 20 mark _ _ 20 copy copy VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 xcomp _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 23 likes like NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nsubj _ _ 24 show show VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ _ 25 clicks click NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obj _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 27 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 28 advmod _ _ 28 truth truth NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=25:appos 29 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: changed polarity=neg | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make up** | participle | | | | | | | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **is a** | present | Fake news | a made story | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **make** | participle | | a made story *not said here* | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **look** | to-infinitive | a made story *not said here* | | | | | like real news | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 5 | **is** | present | logos | | | | | easy *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **copy** | to-infinitive | logos *not said here* | | | | | | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **show** | present | likes | clicks and truth | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent click=Recipient | 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:8`. **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, 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, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/31-propaganda-and-fake-news/7/) - next →: [Propaganda and fake news, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/31-propaganda-and-fake-news/9/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/31-propaganda-and-fake-news/)