--- title: A bot is a computer program that posts by itself while pretending to… — Bots, troll farms and deepfakes in elections · tree and pragmatics description: A bot is a computer program that posts by itself while pretending to be a person, and a troll farm is an office of people paid to post under fake names. Who acts: bot, computer program, troll farm. A sentence of the lesson «Bots, troll farms and deepfakes in elections» of the politics course of Mova --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/32-bots-troll-farms-and-deepfakes/0/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Politics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/) / [Bots, troll farms and deepfakes in ele…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/32-bots-troll-farms-and-deepfakes/) / 0 # Bots, troll farms and deepfakes in elections, sentence 0 A bot is a computer program that posts by itself while pretending to be a person, and a troll farm is an office of people paid to post under fake names. **Who acts:** bot, computer program, troll farm · **What happens:** be, post, pretend, pay · **To what, where:** computer program, person, office, people, fake names This is a sentence of the lesson «Bots, troll farms and deepfakes in elections» 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 (bot, computer program, troll farm), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:politics:032-bots-troll-farms-and-deepfakes.lesson:0 # text = A bot is a computer program that posts by itself while pretending to be a person, and a troll farm is an office of people paid to post under fake names. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = politics # lesson = 032-bots-troll-farms-and-deepfakes.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, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 bot bot NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 computer computer NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 program program NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 7 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 8 nsubj _ _ 8 posts post VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 acl:relcl _ _ 9 by by ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 itself itself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 8 obl _ _ 11 while while SCONJ IN _ 12 mark _ _ 12 pretending pretend VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 8 advcl _ _ 13 to to PART TO _ 16 mark _ _ 14 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 16 cop _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 xcomp _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=6:punct 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 troll troll NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 compound _ _ 21 farm farm NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 22 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 cop _ _ 23 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 office office NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 conj _ _ 25 of of ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nmod _ _ 27 paid pay VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 26 acl _ _ 28 to to PART TO _ 29 mark _ _ 29 post post VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=27:advcl 30 under under ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 fake fake ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 names name NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obl _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | a bot | a computer program and a office | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **post** | present | a computer program and a office | | | | | by bot | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **pretend** | gerund | a computer program and a office *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **is a** | to-infinitive | a computer program and a office *not said here* | a person | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **is a** | present | a troll farm | a office | | | | of people | tree rules | | 6 | **pay** | participle | | people *not said here* | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **post** | to-infinitive | | | | fake names | | | vn send-11.1 «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:032-bots-troll-farms-and-deepfakes.lesson:0`. **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, 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, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/31-propaganda-and-fake-news/17/) - next →: [Bots, troll farms and deepfakes in ele…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/32-bots-troll-farms-and-deepfakes/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/32-bots-troll-farms-and-deepfakes/)