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title: Sponsored content is an advert made to look like news, and the label… — How to check: who, how, who else · tree and pragmatics
description: Sponsored content is an advert made to look like news, and the label "paid for by" tells you someone is selling something. Who acts: Sponsored content, advert, label, someone. A sentence of the lesson «How to check: who, how, who else» of the politics course of Mova's primary school with its depende
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# How to check: who, how, who else, sentence 13

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Sponsored content is an advert made to look like news, and the label "paid for by" tells you someone is selling something.

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**Who acts:** Sponsored content, advert, label, someone · **What happens:** sponsor, be, make, look, pay, tell · **To what, where:** advert, label, you, something · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «How to check: who, how, who else» 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 (Sponsored content, advert, label, someone), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:politics:035-how-to-check-who-how-who-else.lesson:13
# text = Sponsored content is an advert made to look like news, and the label "paid for by" tells you someone is selling something.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = politics
# lesson = 035-how-to-check-who-how-who-else.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): R6-punct-agree ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Sponsored	sponsor	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	amod	_	_
2	content	content	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	advert	advert	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	like	like	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	news	news	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=14:punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	label	label	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
15	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=14:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_
16	paid	pay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
18	by	by	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
19	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=20:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_
20	tells	tell	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
21	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	20	iobj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:obj
22	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	24	nsubj	_	_
23	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	selling	sell	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	ccomp	_	_
25	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	24	obj	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sponsor** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | present | Sponsored content | a advert |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **make** | participle |  | a advert *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **look** | to-infinitive | a advert *not said here* |  |  |  |  | like news | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 5 | **pay** *in a quote* | participle |  | the label *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | the label |  | you |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 7 | **sell** | present · progressive | someone | something |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Theme |

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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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**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): R6-punct-agree ×3, 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/).

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