--- title: To sort a viral story, ask: who says so, did the person themselves s… — Viral rumours, cancellations, fakes and apologies · tree and pragmatics description: 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? Who acts: you, person. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, person), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:adult-life:047-viral-rumours-cancellations-fakes-and-apologies.lesson:1 # text = 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? # source = school lesson (ours) # course = adult-life # lesson = 047-viral-rumours-cancellations-fakes-and-apologies.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, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 To to PART TO _ 2 mark _ _ 2 sort sort VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 advcl _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 viral viral ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 7 ask ask VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 : : PUNCT : _ 10 punct _ _ 9 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 10 nsubj _ _ 10 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:parataxis 11 so so ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:advmod 12 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=13:punct 13 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 16 themselves themselves PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 15 nmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:appos 17 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 parataxis _ _ 18 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 obj _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 20 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 picture picture NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 parataxis _ _ 23 edited edit VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 22 acl _ _ 24 or or CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 taken take VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 23 conj _ _ 26 out out ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 27 of of ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 29 nmod:poss _ _ 29 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 32 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 cop _ _ 33 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 22 conj _ _ 34 trying try VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 33 acl _ _ 35 to to PART TO _ 36 mark _ _ 36 sell sell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 34 xcomp _ _ 37 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 36 iobj _ _ 38 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 36 obj _ _ 39 or or CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 40 trick trick VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 36 conj _ _ 41 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 40 obj _ _ 42 ? ? PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sort** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | a viral story | | | | | vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Theme | | 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past · do-support | the person stories | correction | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic | | 5 | **is a** | present | | a picture | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **edit** | participle | | a picture *not said here* | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **take out** | participle | | correction's story | | | | | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Theme | | 8 | **is a** | present | | someone | | | | | tree rules | | 9 | **try** | gerund | | | | | | | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 10 | **sell** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | | something | me | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient something=Theme | | 11 | **trick** | infinitive | | me | | | | | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient | 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. **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:047-viral-rumours-cancellations-fakes-and-apologies.lesson:1`. **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, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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. 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