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title: Videos can be slowed down, cut or changed to make someone look bad,… — Checking practice: true, false and not sure yet · tree and pragmatics
description: Videos can be slowed down, cut or changed to make someone look bad, and it was reported that slowed-down clips of real politicians were shared this way. Who acts: someone. A sentence of the lesson «Checking practice: true, false and not sure yet» of the politics course of Mova's primary school with 
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# Checking practice: true, false and not sure yet, sentence 14

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Videos can be slowed down, cut or changed to make someone look bad, and it was reported that slowed-down clips of real politicians were shared this way.

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**Who acts:** someone · **What happens:** slow down, cut, change, make, look, report · **To what, where:** Videos, someone, research, slowed clips

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Checking practice: true, false and not sure yet» 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 (someone), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:politics:036-checking-practice-true-false-not-sure.lesson:14
# text = Videos can be slowed down, cut or changed to make someone look bad, and it was reported that slowed-down clips of real politicians were shared this way.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = politics
# lesson = 036-checking-practice-true-false-not-sure.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Videos	video	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	slowed	slow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	down	down	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	cut	cut	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
8	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	changed	change	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBD:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
12	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	11	obj	_	_
13	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
14	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	xcomp	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	reported	report	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=9:conj
20	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
21	slowed	slowed	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
22	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	_
23	down	down	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	compound	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:amod
24	clips	clip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nsubj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	politicians	politician	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nmod	_	_
28	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux:pass	_	_
29	shared	share	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	ccomp	_	_
30	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	31	det	_	_
31	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl:unmarked	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **slow down** | can · passive |  | Videos |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **cut** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **change** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **make** | to-infinitive |  | someone |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **look** | infinitive | someone *not said here* |  |  |  |  | bad *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 6 | **report** | past · passive |  | research |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: subject=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 7 | **slowed** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **share** | past · passive |  | slowed clips of real politicians |  |  |  | this way *obl:unmarked* | tree rules |

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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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×2, 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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