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description: An anonymous forum post is not news, and children's lives should never be dragged into gossip. Who acts: anonymous forum post. A sentence of the lesson «Famous people are people: privacy, scams and kind stories» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragm
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# Famous people are people: privacy, scams and kind stories, sentence 14

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An anonymous forum post is not news, and children's lives should never be dragged into gossip.

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**Who acts:** anonymous forum post · **What happens:** not be, not drag · **To what, where:** news, lives, gossip

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Famous people are people: privacy, scams and kind stories» 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 (anonymous forum post), 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:14
# text = An anonymous forum post is not news, and children's lives should never be dragged into gossip.
# 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): R2-punct-next ×1
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	anonymous	anonymous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	forum	forum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	post	post	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	news	news	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=7:punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
10	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod:poss	_	_
11	's	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	lives	life	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
14	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
15	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	dragged	drag	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
17	into	into	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	gossip	gossip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: changed polarity=neg

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is a** | present | a anonymous forum post | news |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **drag** | should · passive |  | children's lives |  | gossip |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |

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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:048-famous-people-are-people.lesson:14`.

**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. **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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