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title: Famous people still buy chocolate, rewear dresses and get haircuts;… — Viral rumours, cancellations, fakes and apologies · tree and pragmatics
description: Famous people still buy chocolate, rewear dresses and get haircuts; none of that is a scandal. Who acts: Famous people, none. A sentence of the lesson «Viral rumours, cancellations, fakes and apologies» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# Viral rumours, cancellations, fakes and apologies, sentence 18

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Famous people still buy chocolate, rewear dresses and get haircuts; none of that is a scandal.

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**Who acts:** Famous people, none · **What happens:** buy, get, be · **To what, where:** chocolate, haircuts, scandal

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Viral rumours, cancellations, fakes and apologies» 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 (Famous people, none), 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:18
# text = Famous people still buy chocolate, rewear dresses and get haircuts; none of that is a scandal.
# 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Famous	famous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	still	still	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	buy	buy	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	chocolate	chocolate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=8:punct
7	rewear	rewear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:compound
8	dresses	dress	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:conj
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
11	haircuts	haircut	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=4:punct
13	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	18	nsubj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	13	nmod	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	scandal	scandal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **buy** | present | Famous people | chocolate |  |  | still |  | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chocolate=Theme |
| 2 | **get** | infinitive | Famous people *not said here* | haircuts |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer haircut=Stimulus |
| 3 | **is a** | present | none | a scandal |  |  |  |  | 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:047-viral-rumours-cancellations-fakes-and-apologies.lesson:18`.

**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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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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