--- title: Viral rumours, cancellations, fakes and apologies — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Viral rumours, cancellations, fakes and apologies», a lesson of the adult life course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Some stories about famous people race round the internet in an hour; the correction, if it ever comes, crawls along a --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/47-viral-rumours-cancellations-fakes-and-apologies/) [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/) / Viral rumours, cancellations, fakes an… # Viral rumours, cancellations, fakes and apologies Lesson 47 of the adult life course of Mova's primary school: 21 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/47-viral-rumours-cancellations-fakes-and-apologies/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/47-viral-rumours-cancellations-fakes-and-apologies/0/) — Some stories about famous people race round the internet in an hour; the correction, if it ever comes, crawls along afterwards in a tiny box on page 42. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/47-viral-rumours-cancellations-fakes-and-apologies/1/) — To sort a viral story, ask: who says so, did the person themselves say it, is a picture edited or taken out of its story, and is someone trying to sell me something or trick me? - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/47-viral-rumours-cancellations-fakes-and-apologies/2/) — Vivid example: in Brisbane, little Jayden runs in: "Mum! - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/47-viral-rumours-cancellations-fakes-and-apologies/3/) — That YouTuber's giving away free phones, you just type your password in!" Mum takes the tablet off him: "That's a scam with his face on it, love. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/47-viral-rumours-cancellations-fakes-and-apologies/4/) — Free prizes that want your password are traps." - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/47-viral-rumours-cancellations-fakes-and-apologies/5/) — Some public fights are a show, like boxers' trash talk before a match; some are real hurt, like thousands of cruel messages to one writer. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/47-viral-rumours-cancellations-fakes-and-apologies/6/) — And when the law decides a story was a lie, the magazine has to pay. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/47-viral-rumours-cancellations-fakes-and-apologies/7/) — Hopes are not news: "a special guest" at assembly does not mean the singer everybody wants. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/47-viral-rumours-cancellations-fakes-and-apologies/8/) — Corrections are usually much smaller than the false stories they correct, so be slow to believe a shocking first story. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/47-viral-rumours-cancellations-fakes-and-apologies/9/) — Many online photos are filtered or edited; comparing your real face to an edited picture is unfair on yourself. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/47-viral-rumours-cancellations-fakes-and-apologies/10/) — Every age had its gossip papers; the screens are new, the gossip is not. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/47-viral-rumours-cancellations-fakes-and-apologies/11/) — Reality shows plan scenes and edit them into a story; the people in them are still real and can be hated for an edited version of themselves. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/47-viral-rumours-cancellations-fakes-and-apologies/12/) — Famous faces are used in scams; a real giveaway never asks for your password. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/47-viral-rumours-cancellations-fakes-and-apologies/13/) — Boxers' insults at a press conference are "trash talk", a show to sell tickets; that does not make insults okay at school. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/47-viral-rumours-cancellations-fakes-and-apologies/14/) — Trolling means sending many cruel messages online; you can disagree strongly with someone without abusing them. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/47-viral-rumours-cancellations-fakes-and-apologies/15/) — When someone gives a reason, like being ill, swapping it for a meaner guess is cruel. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/47-viral-rumours-cancellations-fakes-and-apologies/16/) — "Charged" with a crime is not the same as "guilty"; the court decides, so wait for it. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/47-viral-rumours-cancellations-fakes-and-apologies/17/) — Printing harmful lies about a person can be against the law; it is called defamation, and a court can make the paper pay the person money for the harm. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/47-viral-rumours-cancellations-fakes-and-apologies/18/) — Famous people still buy chocolate, rewear dresses and get haircuts; none of that is a scandal. - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/47-viral-rumours-cancellations-fakes-and-apologies/19/) — Sharing where a famous person lives is wrong; being a fan gives nobody that right. - [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/47-viral-rumours-cancellations-fakes-and-apologies/20/) — Young famous people, like teenage TV actors, deserve even more privacy, because they are still children. - ← previous: [Tabloids, «sources close to» and the photo that tells a story](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/46-tabloids-sources-close-to-and-the-photo/) - next →: [Famous people are people: privacy, scams and kind stories](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/48-famous-people-are-people/) - ↑ back to [Adult life](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/)