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title: Fake news of a celebrity's death spreads often; wait for trusted new… — Viral facts and chain messages · tree and pragmatics
description: Fake news of a celebrity's death spreads often; wait for trusted news sites or the person's official account before believing or sharing it. Who acts: Fake news, celebrity, person. A sentence of the lesson «Viral facts and chain messages» of the myths course of Mova's primary school with its depende
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# Viral facts and chain messages, sentence 8

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Fake news of a celebrity's death spreads often; wait for trusted news sites or the person's official account before believing or sharing it.

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**Who acts:** Fake news, celebrity, person · **What happens:** spread, wait, trust, believe, share, die · **To what, where:** account

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Viral facts and chain messages» of the myths 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 (Fake news, celebrity, person), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:myths:025-viral-facts-and-chain-messages.lesson:8
# text = Fake news of a celebrity's death spreads often; wait for trusted news sites or the person's official account before believing or sharing it.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = myths
# lesson = 025-viral-facts-and-chain-messages.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	Fake	fake	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	news	news	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	celebrity	celebrity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
8	spreads	spread	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	often	often	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	wait	wait	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	trusted	trust	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	amod	_	_
14	news	news	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	sites	site	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
16	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod:poss	_	_
19	's	's	PART	POS	_	18	case	_	_
20	official	official	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	account	account	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
22	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
23	believing	believe	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
24	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	sharing	share	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	conj	_	_
26	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	_
27	.	.	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** | present | Fake news of a celebrity's death |  |  |  |  | often *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **wait** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | for trusted news sites or the person's official account | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **trust** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **believe** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **share** | gerund |  | account |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **die** |  | a celebrity |  |  |  |  |  | nom death «event intransitive»: poss=agent |
| 7 | **account** |  | the person |  |  |  |  |  | nom account «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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**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.

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