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title: AI can make pictures of real people doing things they never did; str… — Bots, troll farms and deepfakes in elections · tree and pragmatics
description: AI can make pictures of real people doing things they never did; strange hands, blurry writing and odd backgrounds are clues, but clues will not always work. Who acts: AI, real people, people, strange hands. A sentence of the lesson «Bots, troll farms and deepfakes in elections» of the politics cour
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# Bots, troll farms and deepfakes in elections, sentence 9

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AI can make pictures of real people doing things they never did; strange hands, blurry writing and odd backgrounds are clues, but clues will not always work.

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**Who acts:** AI, real people, people, strange hands, clues · **What happens:** make, do, not do, be, not work · **To what, where:** pictures, things, clues

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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 (AI, real people, people, strange hands), 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:9
# text = AI can make pictures of real people doing things they never did; strange hands, blurry writing and odd backgrounds are clues, but clues will not always work.
# 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	AI	ai	NOUN	NN	_	3	nsubj	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	pictures	picture	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
8	doing	do	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	acl	_	_
9	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
12	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
14	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	blurry	blurry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	writing	writing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	odd	odd	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	backgrounds	background	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	_
22	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
23	clues	clue	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	parataxis	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
25	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
26	clues	clue	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nsubj	_	_
27	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
28	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	30	advmod	_	_
29	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	30	advmod	_	_
30	work	work	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	conj	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | can | AI | pictures of real people |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset picture=Product |
| 2 | **do** | gerund | real people *not said here* | things |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality |
| 3 | **not** **do** | past | people | things *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality |
| 4 | **is a** | present | strange hands and blurry writing and odd backgrounds | clues |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **not** **work** | future | clues |  |  |  |  | always *property* | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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: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/).

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