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title: Viral scary-character and «challenge» rumours are usually hoaxes, an… — Rumours and gossip · tree and pragmatics
description: Viral scary-character and «challenge» rumours are usually hoaxes, and an adult can check if there is real danger. Who acts: Viral character rumours, adult, real danger. A sentence of the lesson «Rumours and gossip» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the prag
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# Rumours and gossip, sentence 19

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Viral scary-character and «challenge» rumours are usually hoaxes, and an adult can check if there is real danger.

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**Who acts:** Viral character rumours, adult, real danger · **What happens:** be, check · **To what, where:** hoaxes

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Rumours and gossip» 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 (Viral character rumours, adult, real danger), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:202-rumours-and-gossip.lesson:19
# text = Viral scary-character and «challenge» rumours are usually hoaxes, and an adult can check if there is real danger.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 202-rumours-and-gossip.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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Viral	viral	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
2	scary	scary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	_
4	character	character	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	«	«	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	challenge	challenge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
8	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
9	rumours	rumour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
10	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
11	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	hoaxes	hoax	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
15	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	adult	adult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
17	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	check	check	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
19	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
20	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	21	expl	_	_
21	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:ccomp
22	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	danger	danger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	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 a** | present | Viral character rumours and « challenge | hoaxes |  |  |  | usually *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **check** | can | a adult |  |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **be** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | real danger |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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:everyday:202-rumours-and-gossip.lesson:19`.

**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): R5-strong ×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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