--- title: A mistake is getting it wrong by accident, a lie is saying what you… — Propaganda and fake news · tree and pragmatics description: A mistake is getting it wrong by accident, a lie is saying what you know is false, and good outlets fix mistakes in the open with a correction. Who acts: mistake, lie, you, good outlets. 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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 (mistake, lie, you, good outlets), 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:9 # text = A mistake is getting it wrong by accident, a lie is saying what you know is false, and good outlets fix mistakes in the open with a correction. # 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 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 mistake mistake NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 getting get VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 5 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 obj _ _ 6 wrong wrong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 xcomp _ _ 7 by by ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 accident accident NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 lie lie NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 12 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 13 saying say VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 conj _ _ 14 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 16 obj _ _ 15 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 know know VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 csubj _ _ 17 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 cop _ _ 18 false false ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 ccomp _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 21 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 outlets outlet NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nsubj _ _ 23 fix fix VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 24 mistakes mistake NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obj _ _ 25 in in ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 open open ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 obl _ _ 28 with with ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 correction correction NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **get** | present · progressive | a mistake | news | | | | by accident; wrong *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present · progressive | a lie | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **know** | present | you | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus | | 4 | **is** | present | | | | | | false *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **fix** | present | good outlets | mistakes | | the open | | with a correction | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent mistake=Patient with correction=Co-Patient | 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:9`. **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, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/31-propaganda-and-fake-news/8/) - next →: [Propaganda and fake news, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/31-propaganda-and-fake-news/10/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/31-propaganda-and-fake-news/)