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description: Propaganda often uses fear, anger, music and colours instead of reasons, may call a whole group "enemies", and shows only the facts that help one side. Who acts: Propaganda, facts. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: check the claim and spot the trick ★★★» of the politics course of Mova's primary sc
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# Olympiad: check the claim and spot the trick ★★★, sentence 10

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Propaganda often uses fear, anger, music and colours instead of reasons, may call a whole group "enemies", and shows only the facts that help one side.

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**Who acts:** Propaganda, facts · **What happens:** use, call, show, help · **To what, where:** fear, whole group, facts, one side · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: check the claim and spot the trick ★★★» 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 (Propaganda, facts), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:politics:042-olympiad-check-the-claim-and-spot-the-trick.lesson:10
# text = Propaganda often uses fear, anger, music and colours instead of reasons, may call a whole group "enemies", and shows only the facts that help one side.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = politics
# lesson = 042-olympiad-check-the-claim-and-spot-the-trick.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): R2-punct-next ×1
1	Propaganda	propaganda	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	often	often	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	uses	use	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	fear	fear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	anger	anger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	music	music	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	colours	colour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
11	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADP	13	case	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	fixed	_	_
13	reasons	reason	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	call	call	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	group	group	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
20	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	_
21	enemies	enemy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
22	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=3:punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	shows	show	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
26	only	only	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	facts	fact	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obj	_	_
29	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	30	nsubj	_	_
30	help	help	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	acl:relcl	_	_
31	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	32	nummod	_	_
32	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | present | Propaganda | fear and anger and music and colours instead reasons |  |  |  | often *property* | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fear=Patient |
| 2 | **call** | may |  | a whole group |  |  |  | enemies *obl* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent group=Recipient |
| 3 | **show** | present | Propaganda *not said here* | the facts |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent fact=Recipient |
| 4 | **help** | present | the facts | one side |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent side=Beneficiary |

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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): R2-punct-next ×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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