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title: Cropping a photo can make a crowd look huge or tiny, and old videos… — Olympiad: check the claim and spot the trick ★★★ · tree and pragmatics
description: Cropping a photo can make a crowd look huge or tiny, and old videos are sometimes shared with new captions as if they were happening now; this is recycled footage. Who acts: Cropping, crowd, videos, this. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: check the claim and spot the trick ★★★» of the politics cou
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# Olympiad: check the claim and spot the trick ★★★, sentence 8

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Cropping a photo can make a crowd look huge or tiny, and old videos are sometimes shared with new captions as if they were happening now; this is recycled footage.

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**Who acts:** Cropping, crowd, videos, this · **What happens:** crop, make, look, share, happen, recycle · **To what, where:** photo, crowd, old videos, recycled footage

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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 (Cropping, crowd, videos, this), 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:8
# text = Cropping a photo can make a crowd look huge or tiny, and old videos are sometimes shared with new captions as if they were happening now; this is recycled footage.
# 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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Cropping	crop	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	csubj	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	photo	photo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	crowd	crowd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
9	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	xcomp	_	_
10	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	conj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
14	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	videos	video	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux:pass	_	_
17	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	18	advmod	_	_
18	shared	share	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:conj
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	captions	caption	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
22	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
23	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
24	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
25	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	happening	happen	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	advcl	_	_
27	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	26	advmod	_	_
28	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
29	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	32	nsubj	_	_
30	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
31	recycled	recycle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	32	amod	_	_
32	footage	footage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj
33	.	.	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 | **crop** | gerund |  | a photo |  |  |  |  | vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent photo=Patient |
| 2 | **make** | can | Cropping | a crowd |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **look** | infinitive | a crowd *not said here* |  |  |  |  | huge *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 4 | **share** | present · passive |  | old videos |  |  |  | with new captions; sometimes *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **happen** | past · progressive | videos *= video* |  |  |  | now |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **recycle** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **is a** | present | this | recycled footage |  |  |  |  | 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): R5-strong ×1, 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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