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title: Mixed in with the news and the weather is celebrity gossip: who is d… — Breakfast and chat shows: celebrity gossip on th… · tree and pragmatics
description: Mixed in with the news and the weather is celebrity gossip: who is dating whom, who is splitting up, who has a new haircut. Who acts: celebrity gossip. A sentence of the lesson «Breakfast and chat shows: celebrity gossip on the sofa» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school with its depende
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# Breakfast and chat shows: celebrity gossip on the sofa, sentence 1

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Mixed in with the news and the weather is celebrity gossip: who is dating whom, who is splitting up, who has a new haircut.

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**Who acts:** celebrity gossip · **What happens:** mix, be, date, split up, have · **To what, where:** celebrity gossip, new haircut · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Breakfast and chat shows: celebrity gossip on the sofa» 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 (celebrity gossip), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:adult-life:053-breakfast-and-chat-shows-celebrity-gossip-on-the-sofa.lesson:1
# text = Mixed in with the news and the weather is celebrity gossip: who is dating whom, who is splitting up, who has a new haircut.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = adult-life
# lesson = 053-breakfast-and-chat-shows-celebrity-gossip-on-the-sofa.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): R1-cc-next ×1
1	Mixed	mix	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	csubj:pass	_	_
2	in	in	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	news	news	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=5:cc
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	weather	weather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
10	celebrity	celebrity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	gossip	gossip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
12	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
13	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	dating	date	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	parataxis	_	_
16	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	15	obj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
19	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	splitting	split	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	conj	_	_
21	up	up	ADP	RP	_	20	compound:prt	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj	_	_
24	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	haircut	haircut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mix** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | with the news and the weather | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient with news=Co-Patient |
| 2 | **be** *speech: other* | present |  | celebrity gossip |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **date** | present · progressive | celebrity gossip | celebrity gossip |  |  |  |  | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whom=Co-Agent |
| 4 | **split up** | present · progressive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **have** | present |  | a new haircut |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent haircut=Patient |

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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:053-breakfast-and-chat-shows-celebrity-gossip-on-the-sofa.lesson:1`.

**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): R1-cc-next ×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.

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

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