--- title: A bot is a computer program that posts by itself as if it were a per… — Bots, troll farms and deepfakes in elections · tree and pragmatics description: A bot is a computer program that posts by itself as if it were a person; hundreds of almost identical comments in one minute from accounts with no photos are a warning sign. Who acts: bot, computer program, hundreds. 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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 (bot, computer program, hundreds), 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:5 # text = A bot is a computer program that posts by itself as if it were a person; hundreds of almost identical comments in one minute from accounts with no photos are a warning sign. # 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): no change 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 as as SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 12 if if SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 13 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 14 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 advcl _ _ 17 ; ; PUNCT : _ 6 punct _ _ 18 hundreds hundred NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 nsubj _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 20 almost almost ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 21 identical identical ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 comments comment NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nmod _ _ 23 in in ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 25 nummod _ _ 25 minute minute NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nmod _ _ 26 from from ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 accounts account NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nmod _ _ 28 with with ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 30 det _ _ 30 photos photo NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nmod _ _ 31 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 cop _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 33 warning warning NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 compound _ _ 34 sign sign NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 parataxis _ _ 35 . . 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 | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **post** | present | a computer program | | | | | by bot | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is a** | past | bot | a person | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **is a** | present | hundreds of identical comments in one minute from accounts with no photos | a warning sign | | | | | tree rules | 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:5`. **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: [Bots, troll farms and deepfakes in ele…, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/32-bots-troll-farms-and-deepfakes/4/) - next →: [Bots, troll farms and deepfakes in ele…, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/32-bots-troll-farms-and-deepfakes/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/32-bots-troll-farms-and-deepfakes/)