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title: Stories grow as they travel: one mouse in the kitchen becomes "the s… — Rumours about classmates and what to do with a s… · tree and pragmatics
description: Stories grow as they travel: one mouse in the kitchen becomes "the school's closing because of rats". Who acts: Stories, comments, one mouse, school. 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
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# Rumours about classmates and what to do with a secret, sentence 16

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Stories grow as they travel: one mouse in the kitchen becomes "the school's closing because of rats".

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**Who acts:** Stories, comments, one mouse, school · **What happens:** grow, travel, become, close · **To what, where:** closing

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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 (Stories, comments, one mouse, school), 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:16
# text = Stories grow as they travel: one mouse in the kitchen becomes "the school's closing because of rats".
# 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): no change
1	Stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	grow	grow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	travel	travel	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
7	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	mouse	mouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	becomes	become	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
13	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod:poss	_	_
16	's	's	PART	POS	_	15	case	_	_
17	closing	closing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	xcomp	_	_
18	because	because	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	20	case	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	fixed	_	_
20	rats	rat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	_
21	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | present | Stories |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **travel** | present | comments *= comment* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **become** | present | one mouse in the kitchen | the school's closing because rats |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **close** *in a quote* |  | the school |  |  |  |  | because rats | nom closing «act transitive»: poss=agent because=obl |

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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): no change. **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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