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title: Screenshots of messages can be faked in seconds, and private message… — Famous people are people: privacy, scams and kin… · tree and pragmatics
description: Screenshots of messages can be faked in seconds, and private messages are private even if they are real. Who acts: private messages, messages. 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 tr
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# Famous people are people: privacy, scams and kind stories, sentence 17

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Screenshots of messages can be faked in seconds, and private messages are private even if they are real.

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**Who acts:** private messages, messages · **What happens:** fake, be · **To what, where:** Screenshots

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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 (private messages, messages), 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:17
# text = Screenshots of messages can be faked in seconds, and private messages are private even if they are real.
# 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): no change
1	Screenshots	screenshot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	messages	message	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
4	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	faked	fake	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	seconds	second	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
11	private	private	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	messages	message	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
13	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	private	private	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
15	even	even	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
16	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
17	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
19	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	advcl	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fake** | can · passive |  | Screenshots of messages |  |  | second |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | present | private messages |  |  |  |  | private *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | messages *= message* |  |  |  |  | real *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:17`.

**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): no change. **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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