--- title: A rumour grows each time it is passed on: a spilled water bottle bec… — How to handle gossip: is it true, is it kind, wo… · tree and pragmatics description: A rumour grows each time it is passed on: a spilled water bottle becomes "she wet herself", "he's away working" becomes "he's in prison", and Lily said Maya said Zoe said becomes something Hannah never said. Who acts: rumour, time, spilled water bottle, person. 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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 (rumour, time, spilled water bottle, person), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:adult-life:049-how-to-handle-gossip.lesson:2 # text = A rumour grows each time it is passed on: a spilled water bottle becomes "she wet herself", "he's away working" becomes "he's in prison", and Lily said Maya said Zoe said becomes something Hannah never said. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = adult-life # lesson = 049-how-to-handle-gossip.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): R6-punct-agree ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×5 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 rumour rumour NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 grows grow VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 5 det _ _ 5 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl:unmarked _ _ 6 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj:pass _ _ 7 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 aux:pass _ _ 8 passed pass VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 acl:relcl _ _ 9 on on ADP RP _ 8 compound:prt _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=8:compound:prt|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 10 : : PUNCT : _ 15 punct _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 12 spilled spill VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 14 amod _ _ 13 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 14 bottle bottle NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 15 becomes become VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 16 " " PUNCT `` _ 18 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=15:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 17 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 wet wet VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 ccomp _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=15:ccomp|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 19 herself herself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 18 obj _ _ 20 " " PUNCT '' _ 18 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=18:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 22 " " PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 23 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 24 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 25 away away ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 26 working work VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 conj _ _ 27 " " PUNCT '' _ 28 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=28:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_ 28 becomes become VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 conj _ _ 29 " " PUNCT `` _ 33 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=28:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 30 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 31 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 cop _ _ 32 in in ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 prison prison NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 ccomp _ _ 34 " " PUNCT '' _ 33 punct _ _ 35 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 37 Lily Lily PROPN NNP Number=Sing 38 nsubj _ _ 38 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 conj _ _ 39 Maya Maya PROPN NNP Number=Sing 40 nsubj _ _ 40 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 38 ccomp _ _ 41 Zoe Zoe PROPN NNP Number=Sing 42 nsubj _ _ 42 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 40 ccomp _ _ 43 becomes become VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 42 ccomp _ _ 44 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 43 obj _ _ 45 Hannah Hannah PROPN NNP Number=Sing 47 nsubj _ _ 46 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 47 advmod _ _ 47 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 44 acl:relcl _ _ 48 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=26:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed voice=narrator | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **grow** | present | a rumour | | | | time | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **pass on** | present · passive | each time *not said here* | rumour | | | | | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 3 | **spill** | participle | | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **become** | present | a spilled water bottle | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **wet** *in a quote* | past | person | person | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent herself=Patient | | 6 | **work** *in a quote* | present · progressive | he | | | | | away *property* | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **become** | present | he *not said here* | | | | | | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 8 | **is** *in a quote* | present | he | | | prison | | | tree rules | | 9 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Lily | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 10 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Maya | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 11 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Zoe | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 12 | **become** | present | | something | | | | | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Patient something=Result | | 13 | **not** **say** *speech: assert* | past | Hannah | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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:049-how-to-handle-gossip.lesson:2`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×5. **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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [How to handle gossip: is it true, is i…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/49-how-to-handle-gossip/1/) - next →: [How to handle gossip: is it true, is i…, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/49-how-to-handle-gossip/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/49-how-to-handle-gossip/)