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title: Clips, crops and captions can bend the truth even when every word or… — Olympiad: check the claim and spot the trick ★★★ · tree and pragmatics
description: Clips, crops and captions can bend the truth even when every word or picture is real, so look for the full speech, the wide photo and the date before you decide. Who acts: Clips, word, you. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: check the claim and spot the trick ★★★» of the politics course of Mova's p
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# Olympiad: check the claim and spot the trick ★★★, sentence 3

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Clips, crops and captions can bend the truth even when every word or picture is real, so look for the full speech, the wide photo and the date before you decide.

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**Who acts:** Clips, word, you · **What happens:** bend, be, look, decide · **To what, where:** truth

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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 (Clips, word, 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:3
# text = Clips, crops and captions can bend the truth even when every word or picture is real, so look for the full speech, the wide photo and the date before you decide.
# 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1
1	Clips	clip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	crops	crop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	captions	caption	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=3:conj
6	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	bend	bend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	truth	truth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	even	even	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	17	mark	_	_
12	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	13	det	_	_
13	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
14	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	picture	picture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
17	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	advcl	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	so	so	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	look	look	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	speech	speech	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	wide	wide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	photo	photo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:obl
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	date	date	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	_
32	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
33	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
34	decide	decide	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	advcl	_	_
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: suggest
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=suggest

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bend** | can | Clips and crops and captions | the truth |  |  |  |  | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent truth=Material |
| 2 | **is** | present | every word or picture |  |  |  |  | real *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **look** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | for the full speech and the wide photo and the date | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for speech=Theme |
| 4 | **decide** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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 ×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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