--- title: Famous people are not characters in a game; they get ill, grieve, ha… — Famous people are people: privacy, scams and kin… · tree and pragmatics description: Famous people are not characters in a game; they get ill, grieve, have families, have bad days and read what is written about them. Who acts: Famous people, people. 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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 (Famous people, people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:adult-life:048-famous-people-are-people.lesson:0 # text = Famous people are not characters in a game; they get ill, grieve, have families, have bad days and read what is written about them. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = adult-life # lesson = 048-famous-people-are-people.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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Famous famous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 3 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 5 advmod _ _ 5 characters character NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 parataxis _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 game game NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 9 ; ; PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 get get VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 ill ill ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=11:punct 14 grieve grieve VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:xcomp|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 17 families family NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 19 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:parataxis 20 bad bad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obj _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 read read VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=19:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 24 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 26 nsubj:pass _ _ 25 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 aux:pass _ _ 26 written write VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 23 ccomp _ _ 27 about about ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 obl _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=11: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 | Famous people | characters | | a game | | | tree rules | | 2 | **get** | present | people | | | | | ill *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **grieve** | present | people *not said here* | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **have** | present | people *not said here* | families | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent family=Patient | | 5 | **have** | present | people *not said here* | | | | day | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **read** | present | people *not said here* | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 7 | **write** | present · passive | | | | | | about people | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: subject=Recipient about they=Topic | 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:048-famous-people-are-people.lesson:0`. **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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-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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