--- title: TV can mislead in the opposite way: putting one scientist and one do… — Algorithms, bubbles and false balance · tree and pragmatics description: TV can mislead in the opposite way: putting one scientist and one doubter side by side can make a question look 50-50 when the experts mostly agree; that is false balance. Who acts: TV, putting, question, experts. 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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 (TV, putting, question, experts), 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:3 # text = TV can mislead in the opposite way: putting one scientist and one doubter side by side can make a question look 50-50 when the experts mostly agree; that is false balance. # 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): R5-strong ×1 1 TV TV NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 2 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 mislead mislead VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 opposite opposite ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 8 : : PUNCT : _ 3 punct _ _ 9 putting put VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 19 csubj _ _ 10 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 11 nummod _ _ 11 scientist scientist NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 13 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 14 nummod _ _ 14 doubter doubter NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 15 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 conj _ _ 16 by by ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:obl 18 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 19 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 parataxis _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 question question NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 22 look look VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 xcomp _ _ 23 50-50 50-50 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 22 obj _ _ 24 when when SCONJ WRB _ 28 mark _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 experts expert NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nsubj _ _ 27 mostly mostly ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 28 agree agree VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 advcl _ _ 29 ; ; PUNCT : _ 33 punct _ _ 30 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 33 nsubj _ _ 31 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 cop _ _ 32 false false ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 balance balance NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mislead** | can | TV | | | the opposite way | | | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **put** | gerund | | one scientist and doubter side by side | | | | | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent scientist=Goal | | 3 | **make** | can | putting | a question | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **look** | infinitive | a question *not said here* | 50-50 | | | | | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme 50-50=Attribute | | 5 | **agree** *speech: agree* | present | the experts | | | | | mostly *property* | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **is a** | present | that | false balance | | | | | tree rules | 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:3`. **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): R5-strong ×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: [Algorithms, bubbles and false balance, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/34-algorithms-bubbles-and-false-balance/2/) - next →: [Algorithms, bubbles and false balance, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/34-algorithms-bubbles-and-false-balance/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/34-algorithms-bubbles-and-false-balance/)