--- title: People of any age can believe false things they see online; correcti… — Grandma and Uncle on opposite sides: staying fri… · tree and pragmatics description: People of any age can believe false things they see online; correcting someone in front of others can embarrass them, and embarrassed people often dig in. Who acts: People, correcting, embarrassed people. A sentence of the lesson «Grandma and Uncle on opposite sides: staying friends» of the politics --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/15-grandma-and-uncle-on-opposite-sides-staying-friends/15/) [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/) / [Politics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/) / [Grandma and Uncle on opposite sides: s…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/15-grandma-and-uncle-on-opposite-sides-staying-friends/) / 15 # Grandma and Uncle on opposite sides: staying friends, sentence 15 People of any age can believe false things they see online; correcting someone in front of others can embarrass them, and embarrassed people often dig in. **Who acts:** People, correcting, embarrassed people · **What happens:** believe, see, correct, embarrass, dig in · **To what, where:** false things, someone, front, People This is a sentence of the lesson «Grandma and Uncle on opposite sides: staying friends» of the politics 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 (People, correcting, embarrassed people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:politics:015-grandma-and-uncle-on-opposite-sides-staying-friends.lesson:15 # text = People of any age can believe false things they see online; correcting someone in front of others can embarrass them, and embarrassed people often dig in. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = politics # lesson = 015-grandma-and-uncle-on-opposite-sides-staying-friends.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 People people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 2 of of ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 4 det _ _ 4 age age NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 nmod _ _ 5 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 6 believe believe VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 7 false false ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ _ 9 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 see see VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 acl:relcl _ _ 11 online online ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 12 ; ; PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=6:punct 13 correcting correct VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 20 csubj _ _ 14 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 13 obj _ _ 15 in in ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 front front NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:nmod 17 of of ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 others other NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nmod _ _ 19 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 20 embarrass embarrass VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj 21 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 obj _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 24 embarrassed embarrassed ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nsubj _ _ 26 often often ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 27 dig dig VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 28 in in ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=27:compound:prt|HaikuPos=ADP:RP:_ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **believe** | can | People of any age | false things | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus | | 2 | **see** | present | People | false things *not said here* | | | | online *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus | | 3 | **correct** *speech: disagree* | gerund | | someone | | front of others | | | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent someone=Patient | | 4 | **embarrass** | can | correcting | People | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer | | 5 | **dig in** | present | embarrassed people | | | | | often *property* | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:politics:015-grandma-and-uncle-on-opposite-sides-staying-friends.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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