"It's on TikTok so it's true" and the comment section, sentence 15
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 · What happens: check, trust, believe, share, spread · To what, where: Big news, trusted news website, website, lot
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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 news | amod |
| 2 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 checked | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 dying | punct |
| 4 | like | like | ADP | _ | 8 dying | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 person | det |
| 6 | famous | famous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 person | amod |
| 7 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 dying | compound |
| 8 | dying | dying | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 news | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 checked | punct |
| 10 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 checked | aux |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 checked | aux:pass |
| 12 | checked | check | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 website | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 website | det |
| 15 | trusted | trust | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 website | amod |
| 16 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 website | compound |
| 17 | website | website | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 checked | obl |
| 18 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 20 believe | mark |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 believe | nsubj |
| 20 | believe | believe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 checked | advcl |
| 21 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 22 share | cc |
| 22 | share | share | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 believe | conj |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 share | obj |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 spread | punct |
| 25 | fake | fake | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 stories | amod |
| 26 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 stories | compound |
| 27 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 spread | nsubj |
| 28 | spread | spread | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 checked | parataxis |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 lot | det |
| 30 | lot | lot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 spread | obl:unmarked |
| 31 | online | online | ADV | _ | 28 spread | advmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 checked | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | 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 |
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: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.
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