--- title: When someone is paid to praise a product, their opinion may not be h… — The YouTuber who is right about everything · tree and pragmatics description: When someone is paid to praise a product, their opinion may not be honest; grown-ups call this a conflict of interest. Who acts: opinion, grown ups, ups, interest. 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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 (opinion, grown ups, ups, interest), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:world:174-the-youtuber-who-is-right-about-everything.lesson:17 # text = When someone is paid to praise a product, their opinion may not be honest; grown-ups call this a conflict of interest. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = world # lesson = 174-the-youtuber-who-is-right-about-everything.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): R7-rel-agree ×3 1 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 4 advmod _ _ 2 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 4 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux:pass _ _ 4 paid pay VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 advcl _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 6 mark _ _ 6 praise praise VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:advcl 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 product product NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 10 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 opinion opinion NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 12 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 13 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 15 advmod _ _ 14 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 15 cop _ _ 15 honest honest ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 17 grown grow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 19 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:_ 18 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 19 punct _ _ 19 ups up NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nsubj _ _ 20 call call VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 parataxis _ _ 21 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 20 obj _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 conflict conflict NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:obj 24 of of ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 interest interest NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 15 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **pay** | present · passive | | someone | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **praise** | to-infinitive | | a product | | | | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent product=Theme | | 3 | **not** **is** | may | ups's opinion | | | | | honest *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **grow** | participle | | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **call** | present | grown ups | this | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent this=Recipient | | 6 | **opine** | | ups *= up* | | | | | | nom opinion «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | | 7 | **conflict** | | interest | | | | | | nom conflict «act intransitive»: of=agent | 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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:world:174-the-youtuber-who-is-right-about-everything.lesson:17`. **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): R7-rel-agree ×3. **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. 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