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title: Paparazzi are photographers who follow famous people to sell picture… — Tabloids, «sources close to» and the photo that… · tree and pragmatics
description: Paparazzi are photographers who follow famous people to sell pictures; chasing someone home is frightening and dangerous, and no photo is worth that. Who acts: Paparazzi, photographers, chasing, photo. A sentence of the lesson «Tabloids, «sources close to» and the photo that tells a story» of the ad
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# Tabloids, «sources close to» and the photo that tells a story, sentence 12

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Paparazzi are photographers who follow famous people to sell pictures; chasing someone home is frightening and dangerous, and no photo is worth that.

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**Who acts:** Paparazzi, photographers, chasing, photo · **What happens:** be, follow, sell, chase · **To what, where:** photographers, famous people, pictures, someone

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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 (Paparazzi, photographers, chasing, photo), 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:12
# text = Paparazzi are photographers who follow famous people to sell pictures; chasing someone home is frightening and dangerous, and no photo is worth that.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	Paparazzi	paparazzi	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	photographers	photographer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	parataxis	_	_
4	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
5	follow	follow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
6	famous	famous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	sell	sell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	_
10	pictures	picture	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	chasing	chase	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	csubj	_	_
13	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	12	obj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:compound
14	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
16	frightening	frightening	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	conj	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
21	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	22	det	_	_
22	photo	photo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
23	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
24	worth	worth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	conj	_	_
25	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	24	obj	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=16:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Paparazzi | photographers |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **follow** | present | photographers | famous people |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme |
| 3 | **sell** | to-infinitive | photographers *not said here* | pictures |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent picture=Theme |
| 4 | **chase** | gerund |  | someone |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **is** | present | chasing |  |  |  |  | frightening *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **be** |  | chasing *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **is** | present | no photo |  |  |  |  | worth *property* | 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:12`.

**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): R5-strong ×1, 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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