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title: Celebrity "feuds" may be real, exaggerated or even staged for public… — Breakfast and chat shows: celebrity gossip on th… · tree and pragmatics
description: Celebrity "feuds" may be real, exaggerated or even staged for publicity; fans who take sides do not know the stars at all. Who acts: Celebrity, fans. A sentence of the lesson «Breakfast and chat shows: celebrity gossip on the sofa» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school with its dependenc
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# Breakfast and chat shows: celebrity gossip on the sofa, sentence 15

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Celebrity "feuds" may be real, exaggerated or even staged for publicity; fans who take sides do not know the stars at all.

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**Who acts:** Celebrity, fans · **What happens:** be, exaggerate, stage, take, not know · **To what, where:** sides, stars, all

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Breakfast and chat shows: celebrity gossip on the sofa» 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 (Celebrity, fans), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:adult-life:053-breakfast-and-chat-shows-celebrity-gossip-on-the-sofa.lesson:15
# text = Celebrity "feuds" may be real, exaggerated or even staged for publicity; fans who take sides do not know the stars at all.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = adult-life
# lesson = 053-breakfast-and-chat-shows-celebrity-gossip-on-the-sofa.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Celebrity	celebrity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
2	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	_
3	feuds	feud	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	appos	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
5	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	cop	_	_
7	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	exaggerated	exaggerate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	conj	_	_
10	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	even	even	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	staged	stage	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=9:conj
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	publicity	publicity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
16	fans	fan	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
17	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
18	take	take	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
19	sides	side	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
20	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	22	advmod	_	_
22	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:conj
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	stars	star	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	_
25	at	at	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	22	obl	_	_
27	.	.	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 | **is** | may | Celebrity |  |  |  |  | real *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **exaggerate** | participle | Celebrity *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **stage** | participle | Celebrity *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for publicity | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for publicity=Beneficiary |
| 4 | **take** | present | fans | sides |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent side=Theme |
| 5 | **not** **know** | present · do-support | fans | the stars |  | all |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer star=Stimulus |

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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:053-breakfast-and-chat-shows-celebrity-gossip-on-the-sofa.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-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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