--- title: False balance means showing two sides as equal when the experts are… — Algorithms, bubbles and false balance · tree and pragmatics description: False balance means showing two sides as equal when the experts are not split; most climate scientists agree the Earth is warming because of people. Who acts: False balance, most climate scientists, Earth. A sentence of the lesson «Algorithms, bubbles and false balance» of the politics course of Mov --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/34-algorithms-bubbles-and-false-balance/9/) [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/) / [Algorithms, bubbles and false balance](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/34-algorithms-bubbles-and-false-balance/) / 9 # Algorithms, bubbles and false balance, sentence 9 False balance means showing two sides as equal when the experts are not split; most climate scientists agree the Earth is warming because of people. **Who acts:** False balance, most climate scientists, Earth · **What happens:** mean, show, not split, agree, warm · **To what, where:** two sides, experts · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Algorithms, bubbles and false balance» 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 (False balance, most climate scientists, Earth), 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:9 # text = False balance means showing two sides as equal when the experts are not split; most climate scientists agree the Earth is warming because of people. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 False false ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 balance balance NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 showing show VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 3 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:ccomp 5 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 6 nummod _ _ 6 sides side NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 7 as as ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 equal equal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:ccomp 9 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 14 advmod _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 experts expert NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nsubj:pass _ _ 12 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 aux:pass _ _ 13 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 14 advmod _ _ 14 split split VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:advcl 15 ; ; PUNCT : _ 19 punct _ _ 16 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 18 amod _ _ 17 climate climate NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 compound _ _ 18 scientists scientist NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nsubj _ _ 19 agree agree VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 Earth Earth PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=23:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 22 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 23 warming warm VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 19 ccomp _ _ 24 because because ADP IN ExtPos=ADP 26 case _ _ 25 of of ADP IN _ 24 fixed _ _ 26 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obl _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present | False balance | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **show** *not said to happen* | gerund | False balance *not said here* | two sides | | | | as equal | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent side=Recipient | | 3 | **not** **split** | present · passive | | the experts | | | | | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 4 | **agree** *speech: agree* | present | most climate scientists | | | | | | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **warm** | present · progressive | the Earth | | | | | because people | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | 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: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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-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. 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