--- title: Some gossip is a shared joke, like a gnome sending postcards from Sp… — Our street: who parked where and who won what · tree and pragmatics description: Some gossip is a shared joke, like a gnome sending postcards from Spain; it stays fun while the people in it are laughing too. Who acts: gossip, gnome, people. A sentence of the lesson «Our street: who parked where and who won what» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school with its dependen --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/41-our-street-who-parked-where-and-who-won-what/26/) [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/) / [Adult life](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/) / [Our street: who parked where and who w…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/41-our-street-who-parked-where-and-who-won-what/) / 26 # Our street: who parked where and who won what, sentence 26 Some gossip is a shared joke, like a gnome sending postcards from Spain; it stays fun while the people in it are laughing too. **Who acts:** gossip, gnome, people · **What happens:** share, be, send, stay, laugh · **To what, where:** shared joke, postcards, Spain This is a sentence of the lesson «Our street: who parked where and who won what» 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 (gossip, gnome, people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:adult-life:041-our-street-who-parked-where-and-who-won-what.lesson:26 # text = Some gossip is a shared joke, like a gnome sending postcards from Spain; it stays fun while the people in it are laughing too. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = adult-life # lesson = 041-our-street-who-parked-where-and-who-won-what.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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Some some DET DT PronType=Ind 2 det _ _ 2 gossip gossip NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 shared share VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 amod _ _ 6 joke joke NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 8 like like ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 gnome gnome NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 appos _ _ 11 sending send VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 10 acl _ _ 12 postcards postcard NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obj _ _ 13 from from ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 Spain Spain PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 nmod _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 stays stay VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj 18 fun fun ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 xcomp _ _ 19 while while SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nsubj _ _ 22 in in ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nmod _ _ 24 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 25 laughing laugh VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 17 advcl _ _ 26 too too ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 27 . . 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 | **share** | participle | | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **is a** | present | some gossip | a shared joke | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **send** | gerund | a gnome *not said here* | postcards | | Spain | | | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent postcard=Theme from spain=Initial\_Location | | 4 | **stay** | present | gossip | | | | | fun *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **laugh** | present · progressive | the people in gossip | | | | | | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «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:adult-life:041-our-street-who-parked-where-and-who-won-what.lesson:26`. **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): R7-rel-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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