--- title: When your feed and friends all agree with you, it can feel as if eve… — Algorithms, bubbles and false balance · tree and pragmatics description: When your feed and friends all agree with you, it can feel as if everyone does; that is a bubble, or echo chamber, and posts that make people angry spread fastest because angry people comment. Who acts: feed, it, that, posts. 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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 (feed, it, that, posts), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:politics:034-algorithms-bubbles-and-false-balance.lesson:2 # text = When your feed and friends all agree with you, it can feel as if everyone does; that is a bubble, or echo chamber, and posts that make people angry spread fastest because angry people comment. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = politics # lesson = 034-algorithms-bubbles-and-false-balance.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 When when SCONJ WRB _ 7 mark _ _ 2 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 3 nmod:poss _ _ 3 feed feed NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 5 friends friend NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 conj _ _ 6 all all ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 7 agree agree VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 advcl _ _ 8 with with ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 7 obl _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 11 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 12 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 13 feel feel VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 14 as as SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 15 if if SCONJ IN _ 14 fixed _ _ 16 everyone everyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 17 nsubj _ _ 17 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 ccomp _ _ 18 ; ; PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 19 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 22 nsubj _ _ 20 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 bubble bubble NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 parataxis _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 24 or or CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 25 echo echo NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 compound _ _ 26 chamber chamber NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 conj _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 posts post NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 nsubj _ _ 30 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 31 nsubj _ _ 31 make make VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 acl:relcl _ _ 32 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 obj _ _ 33 angry angry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 xcomp _ _ 34 spread spread VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 parataxis _ _ 35 fastest fast ADV RBS Degree=Sup 34 advmod _ _ 36 because because SCONJ IN _ 39 mark _ _ 37 angry angry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 39 nsubj _ _ 39 comment comment VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 advcl _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert, polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **agree** *speech: agree* | present | your feed and friends | | | | | with you; all *property* | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.co-agent how S»: agent=Agent with you=Co-Agent | | 2 | **feel** | can | it | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 3 | **is a** | present | that | a bubble or echo chamber | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **make** | present | posts | people | | | | angry *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset people=Product | | 5 | **spread** | present | posts | | | | | fast *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **comment** *speech: other* | present | angry people | | | | | | vn lecture-37.11-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:034-algorithms-bubbles-and-false-balance.lesson:2`. **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: [Algorithms, bubbles and false balance, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/34-algorithms-bubbles-and-false-balance/1/) - next →: [Algorithms, bubbles and false balance, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/34-algorithms-bubbles-and-false-balance/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/34-algorithms-bubbles-and-false-balance/)