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title: Big news, like a famous person dying, should be checked on a trusted… — "It's on TikTok so it's true" and the comment se… · tree and pragmatics
description: Big news, like a famous person dying, should be checked on a trusted news website before you believe or share it; fake death stories spread a lot online. Who acts: you, fake death stories. A sentence of the lesson «"It's on TikTok so it's true" and the comment section» of the world course of Mova's 
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# "It's on TikTok so it's true" and the comment section, sentence 15

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Big news, like a famous person dying, should be checked on a trusted news website before you believe or share it; fake death stories spread a lot online.

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**Who acts:** you, fake death stories · **What happens:** check, trust, believe, share, spread · **To what, where:** Big news, trusted news website, website, lot

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This is a sentence of the lesson «"It's on TikTok so it's true" and the comment section» of the world 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 (you, fake death stories), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:175-its-on-tiktok-so-its-true-and-the-comment-section.lesson:15
# text = Big news, like a famous person dying, should be checked on a trusted news website before you believe or share it; fake death stories spread a lot online.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 175-its-on-tiktok-so-its-true-and-the-comment-section.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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	news	news	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
4	like	like	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:det
6	famous	famous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:amod
7	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	dying	dying	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	checked	check	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	trusted	trust	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	amod	_	_
16	news	news	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	website	website	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
18	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
19	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	believe	believe	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
21	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	share	share	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=20:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	fake	fake	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
26	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nsubj	_	_
28	spread	spread	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBD:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	lot	lot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl:unmarked	_	_
31	online	online	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
32	.	.	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 | **check** | should · passive |  | Big news and person dying |  | a trusted news website |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **trust** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **believe** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **share** | present | you *not said here* | website |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **spread** | present | fake death stories | a lot |  |  |  | online *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «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:world:175-its-on-tiktok-so-its-true-and-the-comment-section.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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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