--- title: False stories spread faster than true ones, because they are made to… — Facts, opinions, clickbait and saying no to dares · tree and pragmatics description: False stories spread faster than true ones, because they are made to shock or scare. Who acts: False stories, stories. A sentence of the lesson «Facts, opinions, clickbait and saying no to dares» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/284-facts-opinions-and-saying-no-to-dares/28/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Facts, opinions, clickbait and saying…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/284-facts-opinions-and-saying-no-to-dares/) / 28 # Facts, opinions, clickbait and saying no to dares, sentence 28 False stories spread faster than true ones, because they are made to shock or scare. **Who acts:** False stories, stories · **What happens:** spread, make, shock, scare · **To what, where:** stories This is a sentence of the lesson «Facts, opinions, clickbait and saying no to dares» 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 (False stories, stories), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:284-facts-opinions-and-saying-no-to-dares.lesson:28 # text = False stories spread faster than true ones, because they are made to shock or scare. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 284-facts-opinions-and-saying-no-to-dares.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 False false ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 stories story NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 spread spread VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 faster fast ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 3 advmod _ _ 5 than than ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 true true ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 ones one NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 9 because because SCONJ IN _ 12 mark _ _ 10 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 11 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 aux:pass _ _ 12 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 advcl _ _ 13 to to PART TO _ 14 mark _ _ 14 shock shock VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 xcomp _ _ 15 or or CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 scare scare VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 conj _ _ 17 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **spread** | present | False stories | | | | | than true ones; fast *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **make** | present · passive | | stories *= story* | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **shock** | to-infinitive | stories *= story* *not said here* | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **scare** | infinitive | stories *= story* *not said here* | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | 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. **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:284-facts-opinions-and-saying-no-to-dares.lesson:28`. **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/). - ← previous: [Facts, opinions, clickbait and saying…, 27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/284-facts-opinions-and-saying-no-to-dares/27/) - next →: [Good pressure, good and bad secrets, a…, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/285-good-secrets-bad-secrets-and-owning-up/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/284-facts-opinions-and-saying-no-to-dares/)