--- title: A short clip can be made of real words and still tell a false story,… — Cherry-picked clips and clickbait headlines · tree and pragmatics description: A short clip can be made of real words and still tell a false story, because what was cut out can flip the meaning. A sentence of the lesson «Cherry-picked clips and clickbait headlines» of the politics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/33-cherry-picked-clips-and-clickbait/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/) / [Cherry-picked clips and clickbait head…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/33-cherry-picked-clips-and-clickbait/) / 0 # Cherry-picked clips and clickbait headlines, sentence 0 A short clip can be made of real words and still tell a false story, because what was cut out can flip the meaning. **What happens:** make, tell, cut out, flip · **To what, where:** short clip, false story, meaning · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Cherry-picked clips and clickbait headlines» 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: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:politics:033-cherry-picked-clips-and-clickbait.lesson:0 # text = A short clip can be made of real words and still tell a false story, because what was cut out can flip the meaning. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = politics # lesson = 033-cherry-picked-clips-and-clickbait.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 3 det _ _ 2 short short ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 clip clip NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj:pass _ _ 4 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 5 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 6 aux:pass _ _ 6 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 11 still still ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 12 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 conj _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 false false ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 17 because because SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 18 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 20 nsubj:pass _ _ 19 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 aux:pass _ _ 20 cut cut VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 23 nsubj _ _ 21 out out ADP RP _ 20 compound:prt _ _ 22 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 23 flip flip VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 advcl _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 meaning meaning NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | can · passive | | a short clip | | | | of real words | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | | 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive | | a false story | | | still | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient | | 3 | **cut out** | past · passive | | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality | | 4 | **flip** | can | | the meaning | | | | | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meaning=Theme | 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:033-cherry-picked-clips-and-clickbait.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): 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…, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/32-bots-troll-farms-and-deepfakes/15/) - next →: [Cherry-picked clips and clickbait head…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/33-cherry-picked-clips-and-clickbait/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/33-cherry-picked-clips-and-clickbait/)