--- title: Correcting a rumour you passed on helps undo the harm. — Rumours and gossip · tree and pragmatics description: Correcting a rumour you passed on helps undo the harm. Who acts: you, Correcting. A sentence of the lesson «Rumours and gossip» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/202-rumours-and-gossip/18/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Rumours and gossip](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/202-rumours-and-gossip/) / 18 # Rumours and gossip, sentence 18 Correcting a rumour you passed on helps undo the harm. **Who acts:** you, Correcting · **What happens:** correct, pass on, help, undo · **To what, where:** rumour, harm This is a sentence of the lesson «Rumours and gossip» of the everyday 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 (you, Correcting), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:202-rumours-and-gossip.lesson:18 # text = Correcting a rumour you passed on helps undo the harm. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 202-rumours-and-gossip.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 ×1 1 Correcting correct VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 7 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:nsubj 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 rumour rumour NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 passed pass VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 acl:relcl _ _ 6 on on ADP RP _ 5 compound:prt _ _ 7 helps help VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 undo undo VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 xcomp _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 harm harm NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 11 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **correct** *speech: disagree* | gerund | | a rumour | | | | | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent rumour=Patient | | 2 | **pass on** | past | you | a rumour *not said here* | | | | | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rumour=Theme | | 3 | **help** | present | Correcting | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 4 | **undo** | infinitive | Correcting *not said here* | the harm | | | | | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent harm=Patient | 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. **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:everyday:202-rumours-and-gossip.lesson:18`. **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 ×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/). - ← previous: [Rumours and gossip, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/202-rumours-and-gossip/17/) - next →: [Rumours and gossip, 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/202-rumours-and-gossip/19/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/202-rumours-and-gossip/)