--- title: A girl in Texas passed on a rumour that a classmate had stolen money… — Rumours and gossip · tree and pragmatics description: A girl in Texas passed on a rumour that a classmate had stolen money; it was not true, but other children stopped sitting with the classmate for weeks, and she cried every morning before school. Who acts: girl, classmate, other children, child. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, classmate, other children, child), 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:21 # text = A girl in Texas passed on a rumour that a classmate had stolen money; it was not true, but other children stopped sitting with the classmate for weeks, and she cried every morning before school. # 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): R5-strong ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Texas Texas PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 passed pass VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 on on ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 rumour rumour NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 9 that that SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 classmate classmate NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 12 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 13 stolen steal VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 8 acl _ _ 14 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 16 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 17 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 cop _ _ 18 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 19 advmod _ _ 19 true true ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 parataxis _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 21 but but CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 22 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nsubj _ _ 24 stopped stop VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 25 sitting sit VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 24 xcomp _ _ 26 with with ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 classmate classmate NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 29 for for ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 weeks week NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obl _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 33 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 34 cried cry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 35 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 36 det _ _ 36 morning morning NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl:unmarked _ _ 37 before before ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 school school NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=36:nmod 39 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **pass** | past | a girl in Texas | | | a rumour | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on rumour=Location | | 2 | **steal** | past · perfect | a classmate | money | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location money=Theme | | 3 | **not** **is** | past | classmate | | | | | true *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **stop** | past | other children | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | | 5 | **sit** | gerund | other children *not said here* | | | | week | with the classmate | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | child | | | school | morning | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before school=Location | 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:21`. **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 ×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, 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/202-rumours-and-gossip/20/) - next →: [Rumours and gossip, 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/202-rumours-and-gossip/22/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/202-rumours-and-gossip/)