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title: Knowing about gossip is one thing; knowing what to do when it lands… — Rumours about classmates and what to do with a s… · tree and pragmatics
description: Knowing about gossip is one thing; knowing what to do when it lands on you is the grown-up part. Who acts: Knowing, thing. A sentence of the lesson «Rumours about classmates and what to do with a secret» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# Rumours about classmates and what to do with a secret, sentence 0

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Knowing about gossip is one thing; knowing what to do when it lands on you is the grown-up part.

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**Who acts:** Knowing, thing · **What happens:** know, be, do, land · **To what, where:** one thing, grown part

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Rumours about classmates and what to do with a secret» 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 (Knowing, thing), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:adult-life:050-rumours-about-classmates-and-secrets.lesson:0
# text = Knowing about gossip is one thing; knowing what to do when it lands on you is the grown-up part.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = adult-life
# lesson = 050-rumours-about-classmates-and-secrets.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 ×2
1	Knowing	know	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	csubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:nsubj
2	about	about	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	gossip	gossip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	knowing	know	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	csubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:nsubj
9	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	11	obj	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
12	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	14	advmod	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	lands	land	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	obl	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
19	grown	grow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	_
21	up	up	ADP	RP	_	19	compound	_	_
22	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	parataxis	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | about gossip | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer about gossip=Stimulus |
| 2 | **is a** | present | Knowing | one thing |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **know** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 4 | **do** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
| 5 | **land** | present | thing |  |  |  |  | on you | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme on you=Destination |
| 6 | **is a** | present | knowing | the grown part |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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.

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**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 ×2. **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/).

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