--- title: Views and likes measure attention, not truth; grown-ups call "lots o… — "It's on TikTok so it's true" and the comment se… · tree and pragmatics description: Views and likes measure attention, not truth; grown-ups call "lots of people liked it, so it's true" the bandwagon. Who acts: Views, grown ups, people, attention. A sentence of the lesson «"It's on TikTok so it's true" and the comment section» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its de --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/175-its-on-tiktok-so-its-true-and-the-comment-section/13/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/) / ["It's on TikTok so it's true" and the…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/175-its-on-tiktok-so-its-true-and-the-comment-section/) / 13 # "It's on TikTok so it's true" and the comment section, sentence 13 Views and likes measure attention, not truth; grown-ups call "lots of people liked it, so it's true" the bandwagon. **Who acts:** Views, grown ups, people, attention · **What happens:** measure, call, like, be · **To what, where:** attention, lots · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «"It's on TikTok so it's true" and the comment section» of the world 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 (Views, grown ups, people, attention), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:world:175-its-on-tiktok-so-its-true-and-the-comment-section.lesson:13 # text = Views and likes measure attention, not truth; grown-ups call "lots of people liked it, so it's true" the bandwagon. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = world # lesson = 175-its-on-tiktok-so-its-true-and-the-comment-section.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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Views view NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 2 and and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 3 likes like NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 conj _ _ 4 measure measure VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 attention attention NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 7 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 8 advmod _ _ 8 truth truth NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ 9 ; ; PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 10 grown grow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 11 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 12 punct _ _ 12 ups up NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nsubj _ _ 13 call call VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 14 " " PUNCT '' _ 13 punct _ _ 15 lots lot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obj _ _ 16 of of ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nmod _ _ 18 liked like VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 17 acl _ _ 19 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 obj _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 21 so so ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 22 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 23 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 cop _ _ 24 true true ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 parataxis _ _ 25 " " PUNCT '' _ 27 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=27:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 bandwagon bandwagon NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 xcomp _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 4 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 | **measure** | present | Views and likes | attention and truth | | | | | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme attention=Value | | 2 | **call** *speech: assert* | present | grown ups | lots of people | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent lot=Recipient | | 3 | **like** *in a quote* | participle | people *not said here* | attention | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=Theme | | 4 | **is** *in a quote* | present | attention | | | | | true *property* | tree rules | 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:175-its-on-tiktok-so-its-true-and-the-comment-section.lesson:13`. **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): R8-pos-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/). - ← previous: ["It's on TikTok so it's true" and the…, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/175-its-on-tiktok-so-its-true-and-the-comment-section/12/) - next →: ["It's on TikTok so it's true" and the…, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/175-its-on-tiktok-so-its-true-and-the-comment-section/14/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/175-its-on-tiktok-so-its-true-and-the-comment-section/)