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title: Cropping a photo can make a crowd look small or huge, which is why p… — Cherry-picked clips and clickbait headlines · tree and pragmatics
description: Cropping a photo can make a crowd look small or huge, which is why people argue about crowd sizes. Who acts: Cropping, crowd, people. 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 
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# Cherry-picked clips and clickbait headlines, sentence 9

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Cropping a photo can make a crowd look small or huge, which is why people argue about crowd sizes.

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**Who acts:** Cropping, crowd, people · **What happens:** crop, make, look, be, argue · **To what, where:** photo, crowd

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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: who acts (Cropping, crowd, people), 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:9
# text = Cropping a photo can make a crowd look small or huge, which is why people argue about crowd sizes.
# 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	Cropping	crop	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	csubj	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	photo	photo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	crowd	crowd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
9	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	xcomp	_	_
10	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	conj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
15	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	9	parataxis	_	_
16	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
17	argue	argue	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl:relcl	_	_
18	about	about	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	crowd	crowd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	sizes	size	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **crop** | gerund |  | a photo |  |  |  |  | vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent photo=Patient |
| 2 | **make** | can | Cropping | a crowd |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **look** | infinitive | a crowd *not said here* |  |  |  |  | small *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 4 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | why *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **argue** *speech: disagree* | present | people |  |  |  |  | about crowd sizes | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.theme S»: agent=Agent about size=Topic |

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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:033-cherry-picked-clips-and-clickbait.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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