--- title: Tabloids, «sources close to» and the photo that tells a story — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Tabloids, «sources close to» and the photo that tells a story», a lesson of the adult life course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Grown-ups love a bit of celebrity gossip: the magazine by the shop till, the app on the phone, the clip e --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/46-tabloids-sources-close-to-and-the-photo/) [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/) / [Adult life](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/) / Tabloids, «sources close to» and the p… # Tabloids, «sources close to» and the photo that tells a story Lesson 46 of the adult life course of Mova's primary school: 20 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/adult-life/46-tabloids-sources-close-to-and-the-photo/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/46-tabloids-sources-close-to-and-the-photo/0/) — Grown-ups love a bit of celebrity gossip: the magazine by the shop till, the app on the phone, the clip everybody is sharing. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/46-tabloids-sources-close-to-and-the-photo/1/) — It is fun, but a lot of it is a small true thing with a big made-up story wrapped round it. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/46-tabloids-sources-close-to-and-the-photo/2/) — A clever reader sorts every story into four piles: what is confirmed (the person said it, or trusted news checked it), what is blown up (true but made bigger), what is pure rumour, and what is simply private. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/46-tabloids-sources-close-to-and-the-photo/3/) — Vivid example: in a Leeds corner shop, Auntie Bev holds up a magazine: "SOAP STAR'S SECRET HEARTBREAK! - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/46-tabloids-sources-close-to-and-the-photo/4/) — Look at her, all drawn at the airport!" Mum looks closer: "Bev, it's one photo of a tired woman at an airport. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/46-tabloids-sources-close-to-and-the-photo/5/) — Everyone looks like that at six in the morning." - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/46-tabloids-sources-close-to-and-the-photo/6/) — Words like "sources close to", "friends fear" and "everyone says" often mean one unnamed person, or nobody at all. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/46-tabloids-sources-close-to-and-the-photo/7/) — And behind every story is a real person who may read it too. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/46-tabloids-sources-close-to-and-the-photo/8/) — A tabloid is a newspaper or magazine that sells by shocking headlines and gossip about famous people; one ordinary photo plus dramatic words can become a whole story. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/46-tabloids-sources-close-to-and-the-photo/9/) — "Sources close to" means the paper is not naming who told it; it can be a real friend, a guess or nobody, and the reader cannot check. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/46-tabloids-sources-close-to-and-the-photo/10/) — Death hoaxes about famous people spread fast because they are shocking; check a proper news site before believing or sharing one. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/46-tabloids-sources-close-to-and-the-photo/11/) — Magazines that circle bits of a star's body in red are mocking an ordinary body, and teach readers to feel ashamed of their own. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/46-tabloids-sources-close-to-and-the-photo/12/) — Paparazzi are photographers who follow famous people to sell pictures; chasing someone home is frightening and dangerous, and no photo is worth that. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/46-tabloids-sources-close-to-and-the-photo/13/) — A quote stuck on a picture of a famous face is very easy to fake; look for where the person really said it. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/46-tabloids-sources-close-to-and-the-photo/14/) — "Must have been sacked" and "gone into rehab" (a clinic to stop drinking or drugs) are often guesses invented to explain a simple announcement like leaving a show or taking a break. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/46-tabloids-sources-close-to-and-the-photo/15/) — A pregnancy, a marriage or a break-up is private until the people themselves choose to share it; fan "clues" like a ring in a photo are not facts. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/46-tabloids-sources-close-to-and-the-photo/16/) — A picture without its story can lie: a "mugshot" can be from a music video, and a short viral clip can leave out what happened before and after. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/46-tabloids-sources-close-to-and-the-photo/17/) — Some years ago some British newspaper journalists secretly listened to famous people's phone messages, which is against the law; they were caught, and it became a huge scandal. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/46-tabloids-sources-close-to-and-the-photo/18/) — "Everyone says so" in a gossip story usually means one unnamed person said it. - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/46-tabloids-sources-close-to-and-the-photo/19/) — You can think a footballer's pay is unfair without hating the person who gets it, and making videos online is a kind of work too. - ← previous: [The royal family in the news: a queen's death, a coronation, titles lost and illnesses announced](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/45-the-royal-family-in-the-news-a-queens-death-a-coronation-titles-lost-and-illnesses-announced/) - next →: [Viral rumours, cancellations, fakes and apologies](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/47-viral-rumours-cancellations-fakes-and-apologies/) - ↑ back to [Adult life](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/)