--- title: Hopes are not news: "a special guest" at assembly does not mean the… — Viral rumours, cancellations, fakes and apologies · tree and pragmatics description: Hopes are not news: "a special guest" at assembly does not mean the singer everybody wants. Who acts: Hopes, special guest, everybody. 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 pragm --- [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/7/) [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…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/47-viral-rumours-cancellations-fakes-and-apologies/) / 7 # Viral rumours, cancellations, fakes and apologies, sentence 7 Hopes are not news: "a special guest" at assembly does not mean the singer everybody wants. **Who acts:** Hopes, special guest, everybody · **What happens:** not be, not mean, want · **To what, where:** news, singer 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 (Hopes, special guest, everybody), 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:7 # text = Hopes are not news: "a special guest" at assembly does not mean the singer everybody wants. # 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 Hopes hope NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 2 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 3 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 4 advmod _ _ 4 news news NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 5 : : PUNCT : _ 15 punct _ _ 6 " " PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 special special ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 guest guest NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 10 " " PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ _ 11 at at ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 assembly assembly NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 13 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 14 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 15 advmod _ _ 15 mean mean VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 parataxis _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 singer singer NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 18 everybody everybody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 19 nsubj _ _ 19 wants want VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 acl:relcl _ _ 20 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=1:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **is a** | present | Hopes | news | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **not** **mean** | present · do-support | a special guest at assembly | the singer | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent singer=Topic | | 3 | **want** | present | everybody | the singer *not said here* | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot singer=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:7`. **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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