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title: Death hoaxes about famous people spread fast because they are shocki… — Tabloids, «sources close to» and the photo that… · tree and pragmatics
description: Death hoaxes about famous people spread fast because they are shocking; check a proper news site before believing or sharing one. Who acts: Death hoaxes, hoaxes. A sentence of the lesson «Tabloids, «sources close to» and the photo that tells a story» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school
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# Tabloids, «sources close to» and the photo that tells a story, sentence 10

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Death hoaxes about famous people spread fast because they are shocking; check a proper news site before believing or sharing one.

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**Who acts:** Death hoaxes, hoaxes · **What happens:** spread, be, check, believe, share · **To what, where:** proper news site, one

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Tabloids, «sources close to» and the photo that tells a story» 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 (Death hoaxes, hoaxes), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:adult-life:046-tabloids-sources-close-to-and-the-photo.lesson:10
# text = Death hoaxes about famous people spread fast because they are shocking; check a proper news site before believing or sharing one.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = adult-life
# lesson = 046-tabloids-sources-close-to-and-the-photo.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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	hoaxes	hoax	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
3	about	about	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	famous	famous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
6	spread	spread	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	advmod	_	_
8	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:aux
11	shocking	shocking	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	advcl	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:advcl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
13	check	check	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
16	news	news	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	site	site	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
18	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
19	believing	believe	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
20	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	sharing	share	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	conj	_	_
22	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	obj	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=13: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 | **spread** | present | Death hoaxes about famous people |  |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | hoaxes *= hoax* |  |  |  |  | shocking *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **check** | infinitive |  | a proper news site |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent site=Theme |
| 4 | **believe** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **share** | gerund |  | one |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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:046-tabloids-sources-close-to-and-the-photo.lesson:10`.

**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, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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/).

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