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title: Headlines are written to grab you, so read the story underneath; a s… — Elections, crime, the weather, breaking news and… · tree and pragmatics
description: Headlines are written to grab you, so read the story underneath; a shocking post that is on no trusted news site is probably fake. Who acts: shocking post. A sentence of the lesson «Elections, crime, the weather, breaking news and news vs opinion» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school wi
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# Elections, crime, the weather, breaking news and news vs opinion, sentence 23

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Headlines are written to grab you, so read the story underneath; a shocking post that is on no trusted news site is probably fake.

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**Who acts:** shocking post · **What happens:** write, grab, read, trust, be · **To what, where:** Headlines, you, story, trusted news site

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Elections, crime, the weather, breaking news and news vs opinion» 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 (shocking post), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:adult-life:052-elections-crime-the-weather-breaking-news-and-news-vs-opinion.lesson:23
# text = Headlines are written to grab you, so read the story underneath; a shocking post that is on no trusted news site is probably fake.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = adult-life
# lesson = 052-elections-crime-the-weather-breaking-news-and-news-vs-opinion.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): R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Headlines	headline	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	written	write	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	grab	grab	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:xcomp
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	so	so	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	read	read	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	underneath	underneath	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	shocking	shocking	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	post	post	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
17	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
19	on	on	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
20	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	23	det	_	_
21	trusted	trust	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	amod	_	_
22	news	news	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	site	site	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	acl:relcl	_	_
24	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
25	probably	probably	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	fake	fake	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **write** | present · passive |  | Headlines |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **grab** | to-infinitive |  | you |  |  |  |  | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme |
| 3 | **read** | infinitive |  | the story |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Topic |
| 4 | **trust** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is** | present | a shocking post |  |  | no trusted news site |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **is** | present | a shocking post |  |  |  |  | fake, probably *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:052-elections-crime-the-weather-breaking-news-and-news-vs-opinion.lesson:23`.

**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): R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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