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title: Before believing a shocking story, look it up on a proper news site,… — Rumours about classmates and what to do with a s… · tree and pragmatics
description: Before believing a shocking story, look it up on a proper news site, and check its date. Who acts: you. A sentence of the lesson «Rumours about classmates and what to do with a secret» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Rumours about classmates and what to do with a secret, sentence 9

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Before believing a shocking story, look it up on a proper news site, and check its date.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** believe, look up, check · **To what, where:** shocking story, story, proper news site, date

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Rumours about classmates and what to do with a secret» 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 (you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:adult-life:050-rumours-about-classmates-and-secrets.lesson:9
# text = Before believing a shocking story, look it up on a proper news site, and check its date.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = adult-life
# lesson = 050-rumours-about-classmates-and-secrets.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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	believing	believe	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	advcl	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	shocking	shocking	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
7	look	look	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	up	up	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=7:compound:prt|HaikuPos=PART:RP:_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	news	news	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	site	site	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	check	check	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
18	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	date	date	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **believe** | gerund | you *not said here* | a shocking story |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer story=Stimulus |
| 2 | **look up** | imperative | you *not said here* | story |  | a proper news site |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Attribute |
| 3 | **check** | infinitive | you *not said here* | site's date |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent date=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:050-rumours-about-classmates-and-secrets.lesson:9`.

**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): 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.

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

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