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title: When a famous person is ill, people online rush to guess. — The royal family in the news: a queen's death, a… · tree and pragmatics
description: When a famous person is ill, people online rush to guess. Who acts: famous person, people. A sentence of the lesson «The royal family in the news: a queen's death, a coronation, titles lost and illnesses announced» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pr
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# The royal family in the news: a queen's death, a coronation, titles lost and illnesses announced, sentence 0

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When a famous person is ill, people online rush to guess.

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**Who acts:** famous person, people · **What happens:** be, rush, guess

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The royal family in the news: a queen's death, a coronation, titles lost and illnesses announced» of the adult life 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 (famous person, people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:adult-life:045-the-royal-family-in-the-news-a-queens-death-a-coronation-titles-lost-and-illnesses-announced.lesson:0
# text = When a famous person is ill, people online rush to guess.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = adult-life
# lesson = 045-the-royal-family-in-the-news-a-queens-death-a-coronation-titles-lost-and-illnesses-announced.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): R6-punct-agree ×1
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	6	mark	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	famous	famous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	advcl	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
9	online	online	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	rush	rush	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	guess	guess	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=6: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 | **is** | present | a famous person |  |  |  |  | ill *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **rush** | present | people |  |  |  |  | online *property* | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Result |
| 3 | **guess** | to-infinitive | people *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: 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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**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:adult-life:045-the-royal-family-in-the-news-a-queens-death-a-coronation-titles-lost-and-illnesses-announced.lesson:0`.

**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): R6-punct-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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