--- title: It was reported by US investigators that a group in Russia called th… — Bots, troll farms and deepfakes in elections · tree and pragmatics description: It was reported by US investigators that a group in Russia called the Internet Research Agency ran many fake accounts pretending to be Americans around the 2016 election; such a group is often called a troll farm. Who acts: US investigators, group, many fake accounts. 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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 (US investigators, group, many fake accounts), 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:6 # text = It was reported by US investigators that a group in Russia called the Internet Research Agency ran many fake accounts pretending to be Americans around the 2016 election; such a group is often called a troll farm. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×2 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj:pass _ _ 2 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 aux:pass _ _ 3 reported report VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 4 by by ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 US US PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 investigators investigator NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl:agent _ _ 7 that that SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 group group NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 10 in in ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 Russia Russia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 12 called call VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 acl _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 14 Internet Internet PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 compound _ _ 15 Research Research PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 compound _ _ 16 Agency Agency PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 17 ran run VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 ccomp _ _ 18 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 19 fake fake ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 accounts account NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obj _ _ 21 pretending pretend VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 20 acl _ _ 22 to to PART TO _ 24 mark _ _ 23 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 24 cop _ _ 24 Americans American PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 21 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:obj 25 around around ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 27 2016 2016 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 28 nummod _ _ 28 election election NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 29 ; ; PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 30 such such DET PDT PronType=Ind 32 det:predet _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 group group NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nsubj:pass _ _ 33 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 aux:pass _ _ 34 often often ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 35 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 conj _ _ 36 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 37 troll troll NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 compound _ _ 38 farm farm NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=35:obj 39 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **report** | past · passive | US investigators | bot | | | | | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent subject=Theme clause=Attribute | | 2 | **call** | past | a group in Russia *not said here* | | the Internet Research Agency | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent agency=Recipient | | 3 | **run** | past | a group in Russia | many fake accounts | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme account=Trajectory | | 4 | **pretend** | gerund | many fake accounts *not said here* | | | the 2016 election | | | tree rules | | 5 | **is a** | to-infinitive | many fake accounts *not said here* | Americans | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **call** | present · passive | | such group | | | | often *property* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=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:032-bots-troll-farms-and-deepfakes.lesson:6`. **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): R7-rel-agree ×2. **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…, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/32-bots-troll-farms-and-deepfakes/5/) - next →: [Bots, troll farms and deepfakes in ele…, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/32-bots-troll-farms-and-deepfakes/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/32-bots-troll-farms-and-deepfakes/)