--- title: A headline asking a scary question is not a fact; Betteridge's law i… — Cherry-picked clips and clickbait headlines · tree and pragmatics description: A headline asking a scary question is not a fact; Betteridge's law is a joke rule that such questions can usually be answered "no". Who acts: headline, law. 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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 (headline, law), 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:13 # text = A headline asking a scary question is not a fact; Betteridge's law is a joke rule that such questions can usually be answered "no". # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 headline headline NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 3 asking ask VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 2 acl _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 scary scary ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 question question NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 7 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 8 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 10 advmod _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 fact fact NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 11 ; ; PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 12 Betteridge Betteridge PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 nmod:poss _ _ 13 's 's PART POS _ 12 case _ _ 14 law law NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 15 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 cop _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 joke joke NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 compound _ _ 18 rule rule NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 parataxis _ _ 19 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 25 obj _ _ 20 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 questions question NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nsubj:pass _ _ 22 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 23 usually usually ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 24 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 25 aux:pass _ _ 25 answered answer VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 18 acl:relcl _ _ 26 " " PUNCT `` _ 27 punct _ _ 27 no no INTJ UH Polarity=Neg 25 discourse _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=25:obj 28 " " PUNCT '' _ 27 punct _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | gerund | a headline *not said here* | a scary question | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent question=Recipient | | 2 | **not** **is a** | present | a headline | a fact | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **is a** | present | Betteridge's law | a joke rule | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **answer** *speech: assert* | can · passive | | such questions | | | | usually *property* | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V NP PP»: subject=Theme that=Eventuality | 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:13`. **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 ×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/). - ← previous: [Cherry-picked clips and clickbait head…, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/33-cherry-picked-clips-and-clickbait/12/) - next →: [Cherry-picked clips and clickbait head…, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/33-cherry-picked-clips-and-clickbait/14/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/33-cherry-picked-clips-and-clickbait/)