--- title: Bad-news gossip can feel caring but still spreads fear; offer help,… — Our street: feuds, newcomers and stories that grow · tree and pragmatics description: Bad-news gossip can feel caring but still spreads fear; offer help, not headlines. Who acts: news gossip. A sentence of the lesson «Our street: feuds, newcomers and stories that grow» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/42-our-street-feuds-newcomers-and-stories-that-grow/20/) [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: feuds, newcomers and stori…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/42-our-street-feuds-newcomers-and-stories-that-grow/) / 20 # Our street: feuds, newcomers and stories that grow, sentence 20 Bad-news gossip can feel caring but still spreads fear; offer help, not headlines. **Who acts:** news gossip · **What happens:** feel, spread, offer · **To what, where:** fear, help This is a sentence of the lesson «Our street: feuds, newcomers and stories that grow» 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 (news gossip), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:adult-life:042-our-street-feuds-newcomers-and-stories-that-grow.lesson:20 # text = Bad-news gossip can feel caring but still spreads fear; offer help, not headlines. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = adult-life # lesson = 042-our-street-feuds-newcomers-and-stories-that-grow.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Bad bad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:amod 2 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 1 punct _ _ 3 news news NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 gossip gossip NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 5 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 6 feel feel VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 7 caring caring ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 xcomp _ _ 8 but but CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 9 still still ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 10 spreads spread VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 11 fear fear NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 12 ; ; PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=6:punct 13 offer offer VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj 14 help help NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 17 advmod _ _ 17 headlines headline NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 conj _ _ 18 . . 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 | **feel** | can | news gossip | | | | | caring *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 2 | **spread** | present | news gossip *not said here* | fear | | | still | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location fear=Theme | | 3 | **offer** | infinitive | | help and headlines | | | | | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent help=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](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:042-our-street-feuds-newcomers-and-stories-that-grow.lesson:20`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, 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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