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title: Look out for the tricks: a shocking title made for clicks ("Scientis… — "It's on TikTok so it's true" and the comment se… · tree and pragmatics
description: Look out for the tricks: a shocking title made for clicks ("Scientists SHOCKED: chocolate makes you smarter!"), an account called "TotallyNotABot123", a fake "famous singer has died" story, a cat clip edited to say "hello", and comments that insult instead of giving reasons. Who acts: you, chocolate
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# "It's on TikTok so it's true" and the comment section, sentence 6

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Look out for the tricks: a shocking title made for clicks ("Scientists SHOCKED: chocolate makes you smarter!"), an account called "TotallyNotABot123", a fake "famous singer has died" story, a cat clip edited to say "hello", and comments that insult instead of giving reasons.

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**Who acts:** you, chocolate, famous singer, comments · **What happens:** look out, make, call, die, edit, say · **To what, where:** shocking title, you, account, fake story, cat clip, hello · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (you, chocolate, famous singer, comments), 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:6
# text = Look out for the tricks: a shocking title made for clicks ("Scientists SHOCKED: chocolate makes you smarter!"), an account called "TotallyNotABot123", a fake "famous singer has died" story, a cat clip edited to say "hello", and comments that insult instead of giving reasons.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Look	look	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	out	out	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	tricks	trick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	shocking	shocking	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	title	title	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	parataxis	_	_
10	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	clicks	click	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
13	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	15	punct	_	_
14	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	_
15	Scientists	scientist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	_
16	SHOCKED	shocked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
17	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
18	chocolate	chocolate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
20	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	smarter	smart	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	19	xcomp	_	_
22	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	_
23	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	_
24	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	19	punct	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	account	account	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
28	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	acl	_	_
29	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	30	punct	_	_
30	TotallyNotABot123	TotallyNotABot123	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	xcomp	_	_
31	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	30	punct	_	_
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	fake	fake	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
35	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	39	punct	_	_
36	famous	famous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	singer	singer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nsubj	_	_
38	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	39	aux	_	_
39	died	die	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	41	acl:relcl	_	_
40	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	39	punct	_	_
41	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
43	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
44	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	compound	_	_
45	clip	clip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	appos	_	_
46	edited	edit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	45	acl	_	_
47	to	to	PART	TO	_	48	mark	_	_
48	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	46	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=46:xcomp
49	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	50	punct	_	_
50	hello	hello	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	obj	_	_
51	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	50	punct	_	_
52	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	_
53	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	54	cc	_	_
54	comments	comment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
55	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	56	nsubj	_	_
56	insult	insult	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	54	acl:relcl	_	_
57	instead	instead	ADV	RB	_	59	case	_	_
58	of	of	ADP	IN	_	60	case	_	_
59	giving	give	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	56	advcl	_	_
60	reasons	reason	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	59	obj	_	_
61	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: warn
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: changed form=imp, act=warn, voice=narrator

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look out** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for the tricks | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for trick=Theme |
| 2 | **make** | participle |  | a shocking title and a account and fake story and comments *not said here* |  |  |  | for clicks and Scientists | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent for click=Asset |
| 3 | **make** *in a quote* | present | chocolate | you |  |  |  | smart *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material you=Product |
| 4 | **call** *speech: express* | participle |  | a account *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **die** *in a quote* | present · perfect | famous singer | fake story *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **edit** | participle |  | a cat clip *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **say** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive |  | hello |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent hello=Topic |
| 8 | **insult** | present | comments |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 9 | **give** | gerund | comments *not said here* | reasons |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reason=Theme |

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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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**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:6`.

**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 ×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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