--- title: Whispering and giggling about someone who is present makes them feel… — Rumours and gossip · tree and pragmatics description: Whispering and giggling about someone who is present makes them feel left out and talked about. Who acts: Whispering, hoaxes. 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/20/) [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/) / 20 # Rumours and gossip, sentence 20 Whispering and giggling about someone who is present makes them feel left out and talked about. **Who acts:** Whispering, hoaxes · **What happens:** whisper, giggle, be, make, feel, leave out · **To what, where:** hoaxes 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 (Whispering, hoaxes), 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:20 # text = Whispering and giggling about someone who is present makes them feel left out and talked about. # 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): no change 1 Whispering whisper VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 9 csubj _ _ 2 and and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 3 giggling giggle VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 1 conj _ _ 4 about about ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 3 obl _ _ 6 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 8 nsubj _ _ 7 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 8 present present ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 acl:relcl _ _ 9 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 obj _ _ 11 feel feel VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 xcomp _ _ 12 left leave VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 11 xcomp _ _ 13 out out ADP RP _ 12 compound:prt _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 talked talk VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 12 conj _ _ 16 about about ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 17 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **whisper** *speech: assert* | gerund | | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **giggle** | gerund | | | | | | about someone | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is** | present | | | | | | present *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **make** | present | Whispering | hoaxes *= hoax* | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **feel** | infinitive | hoaxes *= hoax* *not said here* | | | | | | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 6 | **leave out** | participle | hoaxes *= hoax* *not said here* | | | | | | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **talk about** | participle | hoaxes *= hoax* *not said here* | | | | | about *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:20`. **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/). - ← previous: [Rumours and gossip, 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/202-rumours-and-gossip/19/) - next →: [Rumours and gossip, 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/202-rumours-and-gossip/21/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/202-rumours-and-gossip/)