--- title: Printing harmful lies about a person can be against the law; it is c… — Viral rumours, cancellations, fakes and apologies · tree and pragmatics description: 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. Who acts: Printing, court, paper. 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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 (Printing, court, paper), 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:17 # text = 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. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1 1 Printing print VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 11 csubj _ _ 2 harmful harmful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 lies lie NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obj _ _ 4 about about ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 7 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 8 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 11 cop _ _ 9 against against ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 law law NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 parataxis _ _ 12 ; ; PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 13 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj:pass _ _ 14 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 aux:pass _ _ 15 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 16 defamation defamation NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 xcomp _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 court court NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 21 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 22 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 conj _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 paper paper NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 25 pay pay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 xcomp _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 27 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 compound _ _ 28 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 29 for for ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 harm harm NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=15:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **print** | gerund | | harmful lies | | | | about a person | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lie=Theme | | 2 | **is** | can | Printing | | | | | against the law | tree rules | | 3 | **call** *speech: assert* | present · passive | | lie | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | | 4 | **make** | can | a court | the paper | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **pay** | infinitive | the paper *not said here* | the person money | | | | for the harm | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent money=Asset for harm=Theme | 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:17`. **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. **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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