--- title: Corrections are usually much smaller than the false stories they cor… — Viral rumours, cancellations, fakes and apologies · tree and pragmatics description: Corrections are usually much smaller than the false stories they correct, so be slow to believe a shocking first story. Who acts: Corrections, stories. A sentence of the lesson «Viral rumours, cancellations, fakes and apologies» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school with its dependency t --- [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/8/) [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/) / 8 # Viral rumours, cancellations, fakes and apologies, sentence 8 Corrections are usually much smaller than the false stories they correct, so be slow to believe a shocking first story. **Who acts:** Corrections, stories · **What happens:** be, correct, believe · **To what, where:** false stories, shocking first story 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 (Corrections, stories), 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:8 # text = Corrections are usually much smaller than the false stories they correct, so be slow to believe a shocking first story. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Corrections correction NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 2 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 3 usually usually ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 4 much much ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 smaller small ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 0 root _ _ 6 than than ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 false false ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 stories story NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ _ 10 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 correct correct VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 acl:relcl _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 13 so so ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 14 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 15 cop _ _ 15 slow slow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 16 to to PART TO _ 17 mark _ _ 17 believe believe VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 xcomp _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 19 shocking shocking ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 20 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 21 amod _ _ 21 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 22 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | Corrections | | | | | than the false stories; small, usually *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **correct** *speech: disagree* | present | stories *= story* | the false stories *not said here* | | | | | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent story=Patient | | 3 | **is** | infinitive | | | | | | slow *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **believe** | to-infinitive | | a shocking first story | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer story=Stimulus | 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:8`. **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): 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. 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