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title: A deepfake is a picture, video or voice made with AI to look like a… — Bots, troll farms and deepfakes in elections · tree and pragmatics
description: A deepfake is a picture, video or voice made with AI to look like a real person doing or saying something they never did; extra fingers or a mouth that does not match the words can give it away, but the fakes keep getting better. Who acts: deepfake, real person, video, mouth. A sentence of the lesso
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# Bots, troll farms and deepfakes in elections, sentence 2

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A deepfake is a picture, video or voice made with AI to look like a real person doing or saying something they never did; extra fingers or a mouth that does not match the words can give it away, but the fakes keep getting better.

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**Who acts:** deepfake, real person, video, mouth, extra fingers, fakes · **What happens:** be, make, look, do, say, not do · **To what, where:** picture, something, words, person · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (deepfake, real person, video, mouth), 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:2
# text = A deepfake is a picture, video or voice made with AI to look like a real person doing or saying something they never did; extra fingers or a mouth that does not match the words can give it away, but the fakes keep getting better.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	deepfake	deepfake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	picture	picture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	video	video	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
8	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
10	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:acl
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	AI	ai	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	_
15	like	like	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
19	doing	do	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	acl	_	_
20	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	saying	say	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	conj	_	_
22	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	21	obj	_	_
23	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
25	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	acl:relcl	_	_
26	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	_
27	extra	extra	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	fingers	finger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	nsubj	_	_
29	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	_
32	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	35	nsubj	_	_
33	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
34	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	35	advmod	_	_
35	match	match	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	acl:relcl	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obj	_	_
38	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	39	aux	_	_
39	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	_
40	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	obj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=39:iobj
41	away	away	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
43	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	fakes	fake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	46	nsubj	_	_
46	keep	keep	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	39	conj	_	_
47	getting	get	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	46	xcomp	_	_
48	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	47	xcomp	_	_
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed polarity=none

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | a deepfake | a picture and video or voice |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** | participle |  | a picture and video or voice *not said here* |  |  |  | with AI | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 3 | **look** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | like a real person | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 4 | **do** | gerund | a real person *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | a real person *not said here* | something |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent something=Topic |
| 6 | **not** **do** | past | video |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **not** **match** | present · do-support | a mouth | the words |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Patient |
| 8 | **give away** | can | extra fingers or a mouth | person |  |  |  | away *property* | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 9 | **keep** | present | the fakes |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 10 | **get** | gerund | the fakes *not said here* |  |  |  |  | good *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

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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.

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**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:2`.

**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): R5-strong ×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/).

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