--- title: Yard signs show what some households think, not who will win, becaus… — Olympiad: check the claim and spot the trick ★★★ · tree and pragmatics description: Yard signs show what some households think, not who will win, because most people never put one up; calling a true story "fake news" because you dislike it does not make it false. Who acts: Yard signs, households, most people, you. 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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 (Yard signs, households, most people, you), 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:17 # text = Yard signs show what some households think, not who will win, because most people never put one up; calling a true story "fake news" because you dislike it does not make it false. # 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): R5-strong ×4, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Yard yard NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 signs sign NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 show show VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 7 obj _ _ 5 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 6 det _ _ 6 households household NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 7 think think VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 ccomp _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 9 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 12 advmod _ _ 10 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 12 nsubj _ _ 11 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 12 win win VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 14 because because SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:mark 15 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 16 amod _ _ 16 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nsubj _ _ 17 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 18 advmod _ _ 18 put put VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 acl:relcl _ _ 19 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 18 obj _ _ 20 up up ADP RP _ 18 compound:prt _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:compound:prt 21 ; ; PUNCT : _ 22 punct _ _ 22 calling call VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 36 nsubj _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 true true ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=28:compound 26 " " PUNCT `` _ 28 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=25:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 27 fake fake ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=28:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 28 news news NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 29 " " PUNCT '' _ 28 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=22:punct 30 because because SCONJ IN _ 32 mark _ _ 31 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 32 dislike dislike VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:advcl 33 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 obj _ _ 34 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 36 aux _ _ 35 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 36 advmod _ _ 36 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 37 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 obj _ _ 38 false false ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 xcomp _ _ 39 . . 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 | **show** | present | Yard signs | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **think** *speech: other* | present | some households | | | | | | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=Theme | | 3 | **not** **win** | future | | | | | | | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **not** **put up** | past | most people *not said here* | one | | | | | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent one=Goal | | 5 | **call** | gerund | most people | a true story | | | | | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent story=Theme news=Result | | 6 | **dislike** | present | you | news | | | | | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | | 7 | **not** **make** | present · do-support | | news | | | | false *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product | 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. 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