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title: Big numbers grow as they are passed around, rumours spread faster th… — Charts, number ones and famous musicians as publ… · tree and pragmatics
description: Big numbers grow as they are passed around, rumours spread faster than proof, and songs often come from long before the film where you first heard them, so the wise move is to check before you repeat. Who acts: Big numbers, rumours, songs, you. A sentence of the lesson «Charts, number ones and famou
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# Charts, number ones and famous musicians as public record, sentence 3

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Big numbers grow as they are passed around, rumours spread faster than proof, and songs often come from long before the film where you first heard them, so the wise move is to check before you repeat.

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**Who acts:** Big numbers, rumours, songs, you · **What happens:** grow, pass around, spread, come, hear, be · **To what, where:** numbers, wise move

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Charts, number ones and famous musicians as public record» of the arts 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 (Big numbers, rumours, songs, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:arts:006-charts-number-ones-and-famous-musicians-as-public-record.lesson:3
# text = Big numbers grow as they are passed around, rumours spread faster than proof, and songs often come from long before the film where you first heard them, so the wise move is to check before you repeat.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = arts
# lesson = 006-charts-number-ones-and-famous-musicians-as-public-record.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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	Big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	numbers	number	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	grow	grow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
5	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	passed	pass	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:advcl
8	around	around	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=7:punct
10	rumours	rumour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
11	spread	spread	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
12	faster	fast	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	11	advmod	_	_
13	than	than	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	proof	proof	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	songs	song	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
18	often	often	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
20	from	from	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	19	advmod	_	_
22	before	before	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	film	film	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	parataxis	_	_
25	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	28	advmod	_	_
26	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
27	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	28	advmod	_	_
28	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	acl:relcl	_	_
29	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
31	so	so	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	move	move	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
35	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	cop	_	_
36	to	to	PART	TO	_	37	mark	_	_
37	check	check	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	acl	_	_
38	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	40	mark	_	_
39	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	40	nsubj	_	_
40	repeat	repeat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	37	advcl	_	_
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **grow** | present | Big numbers |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **pass around** | present · passive |  | numbers *= number* |  |  |  | around *property* | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: subject=Trajectory |
| 3 | **spread** | past | rumours |  |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **come** | present | songs |  |  |  |  | long, often *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **hear** | past | you | numbers *= number* |  |  |  | first *property* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus |
| 6 | **is a** | present |  | the wise move |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **check** | to-infinitive | Big numbers *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **repeat** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |

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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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×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.

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