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title: A few seconds of video, like a tired "not now" to a selfie, cannot s… — Famous people are people: privacy, scams and kin… · tree and pragmatics
description: A few seconds of video, like a tired "not now" to a selfie, cannot show what a whole person is like. Who acts: few seconds, whole person. 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 an
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# Famous people are people: privacy, scams and kind stories, sentence 15

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A few seconds of video, like a tired "not now" to a selfie, cannot show what a whole person is like.

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**Who acts:** few seconds, whole person · **What happens:** not show, be · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (few seconds, whole person), 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:15
# text = A few seconds of video, like a tired "not now" to a selfie, cannot show what a whole person is like.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	seconds	second	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	video	video	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
7	like	like	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:det
9	tired	tired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
10	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=16:punct
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
12	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	16	advmod	_	_
13	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	selfie	selfie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
18	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
20	show	show	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
21	what	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	24	det:predet	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
25	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
26	like	like	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	ccomp	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **show** | can | a few seconds of video and a tired selfie |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | present | what whole person |  |  |  |  | like *property* | tree rules |

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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:15`.

**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): R5-strong ×1, 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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