Tabloids, «sources close to» and the photo that tells a story, sentence 10
Death hoaxes about famous people spread fast because they are shocking; check a proper news site before believing or sharing one.
Who acts: Death hoaxes, hoaxes · What happens: spread, be, check, believe, share · To what, where: proper news site, one
This is a sentence of the lesson «Tabloids, «sources close to» and the photo that tells a story» of the adult life 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 (Death hoaxes, hoaxes), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 hoaxes | compound |
| 2 | hoaxes | hoax | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 spread | nsubj |
| 3 | about | about | ADP | _ | 5 people | case |
| 4 | famous | famous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 people | amod |
| 5 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 hoaxes | nmod |
| 6 | spread | spread | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 spread | advmod |
| 8 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 11 shocking | mark |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 shocking | nsubj |
| 10 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 shocking | cop |
| 11 | shocking | shocking | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 spread | advcl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 6 spread | punct |
| 13 | check | check | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 6 spread | parataxis |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 site | det |
| 15 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 site | amod |
| 16 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 site | compound |
| 17 | site | site | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 check | obj |
| 18 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 19 believing | mark |
| 19 | believing | believe | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 check | advcl |
| 20 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 21 sharing | cc |
| 21 | sharing | share | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 believing | conj |
| 22 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 sharing | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 spread | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spread | present | Death hoaxes about famous people | fast property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | present | hoaxes = hoax | shocking property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | check | infinitive | a proper news site | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent site=Theme | |||||
| 4 | believe | gerund | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 5 | share | gerund | one | tree rules |
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, 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:adult-life:046-tabloids-sources-close-to-and-the-photo.lesson:10.
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): R6-punct-agree ×1, 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.
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