Viral facts and chain messages, sentence 8
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 · What happens: spread, wait, trust, believe, share, die · To what, where: account
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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fake | fake | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 news | amod |
| 2 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 spreads | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 death | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 celebrity | det |
| 5 | celebrity | celebrity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 death | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 celebrity | case |
| 7 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 news | nmod |
| 8 | spreads | spread | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | often | often | ADV | _ | 8 spreads | advmod |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 wait | punct |
| 11 | wait | wait | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 8 spreads | parataxis |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 sites | case |
| 13 | trusted | trust | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 sites | amod |
| 14 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 sites | compound |
| 15 | sites | site | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 wait | obl |
| 16 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 21 account | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 person | det |
| 18 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 account | nmod:poss |
| 19 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 18 person | case |
| 20 | official | official | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 account | amod |
| 21 | account | account | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 sites | conj |
| 22 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 23 believing | mark |
| 23 | believing | believe | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 wait | advcl |
| 24 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 25 sharing | cc |
| 25 | sharing | share | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 believing | conj |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 sharing | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 spreads | 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 | 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 |
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:myths:025-viral-facts-and-chain-messages.lesson:8.
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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