--- title: Famous people are people: privacy, scams and kind stories — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Famous people are people: privacy, scams and kind stories», a lesson of the adult life course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Famous people are not characters in a game; they get ill, grieve, have families, have bad days and read what --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/48-famous-people-are-people/) [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/) / Famous people are people: privacy, sca… # Famous people are people: privacy, scams and kind stories Lesson 48 of the adult life course of Mova's primary school: 23 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/adult-life/48-famous-people-are-people/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/48-famous-people-are-people/0/) — Famous people are not characters in a game; they get ill, grieve, have families, have bad days and read what is written about them. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/48-famous-people-are-people/1/) — Some things are private for everyone, famous or not: health, the cause of a death, love lives, children, private messages and home addresses. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/48-famous-people-are-people/2/) — Those stories belong to the person, and only they should share them. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/48-famous-people-are-people/3/) — Vivid example: in Dublin, Nan reads that an old actor has died. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/48-famous-people-are-people/4/) — "God rest him. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/48-famous-people-are-people/5/) — Drink, they'll be saying." Mum gently: "His family haven't said why, Mam. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/48-famous-people-are-people/6/) — Let's just be sorry for them." Nan nods: "You're right, love." - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/48-famous-people-are-people/7/) — The internet also makes things that look real but are not: AI videos, fake screenshots, forum posts with no name. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/48-famous-people-are-people/8/) — And sometimes the gossip is lovely, like a big kind tip for a waitress. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/48-famous-people-are-people/9/) — When someone dies, the cause is for the family to share; guessing about it hurts people who are grieving. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/48-famous-people-are-people/10/) — One mimed song on a TV show, where many performers mime, does not prove a singer cannot sing. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/48-famous-people-are-people/11/) — Influencers must say when a post is a paid advert; asking "is someone paid to say this?" protects you. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/48-famous-people-are-people/12/) — "Musical differences" and "taking a break" mean only what was said; nobody outside the band knows the rest. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/48-famous-people-are-people/13/) — When someone says they are hurt by comments, the kind thing is to listen, not to argue. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/48-famous-people-are-people/14/) — An anonymous forum post is not news, and children's lives should never be dragged into gossip. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/48-famous-people-are-people/15/) — A few seconds of video, like a tired "not now" to a selfie, cannot show what a whole person is like. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/48-famous-people-are-people/16/) — AI can now make fake videos of real people saying things they never said; check whether the person really said it. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/48-famous-people-are-people/17/) — Screenshots of messages can be faked in seconds, and private messages are private even if they are real. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/48-famous-people-are-people/18/) — Child YouTubers are still children; their money and homes are private and they deserve protection. - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/48-famous-people-are-people/19/) — Until the film makers announce it, who plays James Bond is only guessing by fans and betting sites. - [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/48-famous-people-are-people/20/) — Keeping a wedding private by choice is not the same as hiding something bad. - [21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/48-famous-people-are-people/21/) — Online cruelty drives real people off social media; memes mocking someone's looks are bullying, even when lots of people share them. - [22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/48-famous-people-are-people/22/) — Kind stories spread too, and they are the nicest sort of gossip. - ← previous: [Viral rumours, cancellations, fakes and apologies](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/47-viral-rumours-cancellations-fakes-and-apologies/) - next →: [How to handle gossip: is it true, is it kind, would I say it to their face](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/49-how-to-handle-gossip/) - ↑ back to [Adult life](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/)