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title: And if people gossip about you, you never have to deal with it alone. — Rumours about classmates and what to do with a s… · tree and pragmatics
description: And if people gossip about you, you never have to deal with it alone. Who acts: people, you. 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 every clause.
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# Rumours about classmates and what to do with a secret, sentence 7

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And if people gossip about you, you never have to deal with it alone.

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**Who acts:** people, you · **What happens:** gossip, not have, deal

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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 (people, you), 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:7
# text = And if people gossip about you, you never have to deal with it alone.
# 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	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
2	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
3	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	gossip	gossip	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
5	about	about	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
10	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	deal	deal	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obl	_	_
15	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	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 | **gossip** *speech: other* *a condition, not said to happen* | present | people |  |  |  |  | about you | vn chit\_chat-37.6 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about you=Topic |
| 2 | **not** **have** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **deal** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with gossip; alone *property* | vn cope-83 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with it=Theme |

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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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**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:050-rumours-about-classmates-and-secrets.lesson:7`.

**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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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