--- title: Some gossip is lovely: Mrs Lee bought the park kids ice lollies with… — Our street: when a guess becomes a reputation · tree and pragmatics description: Some gossip is lovely: Mrs Lee bought the park kids ice lollies with her bingo money; the Evanses invite the whole street to their fortieth anniversary. Who acts: gossip, Mrs Lee, Evanses. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gossip, Mrs Lee, Evanses), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:adult-life:043-our-street-when-a-guess-becomes-a-reputation.lesson:10 # text = Some gossip is lovely: Mrs Lee bought the park kids ice lollies with her bingo money; the Evanses invite the whole street to their fortieth anniversary. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = adult-life # lesson = 043-our-street-when-a-guess-becomes-a-reputation.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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Some some DET DT PronType=Ind 2 det _ _ 2 gossip gossip NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 lovely lovely ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 5 : : PUNCT : _ 8 punct _ _ 6 Mrs Mrs PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 Lee Lee PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 8 bought buy VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:det 10 park park NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 11 kids kid NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 compound _ _ 12 ice ice NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 13 lollies lolly NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ _ 14 with with ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 15 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 16 bingo bingo NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 17 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:nmod 18 ; ; PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 Evanses Evans PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 21 nsubj _ _ 21 invite invite VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 street street NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 25 to to ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 26 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 27 fortieth fortieth ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumType=Ord 28 amod _ _ 28 anniversary anniversary NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: evaluate - voice: narrator - polarity: pos - teacher: changed act=evaluate | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | some gossip | | | | | lovely *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **buy** | past | Mrs Lee | kids ice lollies | | | | with Lee's bingo money | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lolly=Theme | | 3 | **invite** | present | the Evanses | the whole street | | | | to Evanses's fortieth anniversary | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent street=Recipient | 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:043-our-street-when-a-guess-becomes-a-reputation.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): R5-strong ×2, 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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