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title: Online cruelty drives real people off social media; memes mocking so… — Famous people are people: privacy, scams and kin… · tree and pragmatics
description: Online cruelty drives real people off social media; memes mocking someone's looks are bullying, even when lots of people share them. Who acts: Online cruelty, memes, lots. A sentence of the lesson «Famous people are people: privacy, scams and kind stories» of the adult life course of Mova's primary 
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# Famous people are people: privacy, scams and kind stories, sentence 21

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Online cruelty drives real people off social media; memes mocking someone's looks are bullying, even when lots of people share them.

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**Who acts:** Online cruelty, memes, lots · **What happens:** drive, mock, bully, share · **To what, where:** real people, social media, looks

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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 (Online cruelty, memes, lots), 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:21
# text = Online cruelty drives real people off social media; memes mocking someone's looks are bullying, even when lots of people share 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 ×1
1	Online	online	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	cruelty	cruelty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	drives	drive	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	off	off	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	social	social	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	media	media	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
10	memes	meme	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
11	mocking	mock	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	acl	_	_
12	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	14	nmod:poss	_	_
13	's	's	PART	POS	_	12	case	_	_
14	looks	look	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
15	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	bullying	bully	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	parataxis	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
18	even	even	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
19	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	23	mark	_	_
20	lots	lot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	_
23	share	share	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	_
24	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=16: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 | **drive** | present | Online cruelty | real people |  | social media |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent people=Theme off media=Trajectory |
| 2 | **mock** | gerund | memes *not said here* | someone's looks |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent look=Theme |
| 3 | **bully** | present · progressive | memes |  |  |  |  |  | vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **share** | present | lots of people | looks *= look* |  |  |  |  | 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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**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 ×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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