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title: Spreading untrue stories about someone online can reach many people… — Lies that do real harm · tree and pragmatics
description: Spreading untrue stories about someone online can reach many people and can get you into serious trouble. Who acts: Spreading. A sentence of the lesson «Lies that do real harm» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Lies that do real harm, sentence 21

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Spreading untrue stories about someone online can reach many people and can get you into serious trouble.

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**Who acts:** Spreading · **What happens:** spread, reach, get · **To what, where:** untrue stories, many people, you, serious trouble

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Lies that do real harm» of the everyday 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 (Spreading), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:197-harmful-lies.lesson:21
# text = Spreading untrue stories about someone online can reach many people and can get you into serious trouble.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 197-harmful-lies.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	Spreading	spread	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	csubj	_	_
2	untrue	untrue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
4	about	about	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	3	nmod	_	_
6	online	online	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
7	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	reach	reach	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
14	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	into	into	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	serious	serious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | **spread** | gerund |  | untrue stories |  |  |  | about someone; online *property* | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent story=Theme about someone=Destination |
| 2 | **reach** | can | Spreading | many people |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent people=Theme |
| 3 | **get** | can | Spreading *not said here* | you |  | serious trouble |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=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:everyday:197-harmful-lies.lesson:21`.

**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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