--- title: A boy in Dublin shared a made-up story about a teacher in a group ch… — Rumours and gossip · tree and pragmatics description: A boy in Dublin shared a made-up story about a teacher in a group chat; it spread to parents, the school had to deal with it, and the boy was suspended (sent home from school for some days). Who acts: boy, story, school. 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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 (boy, story, school), 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:22 # text = A boy in Dublin shared a made-up story about a teacher in a group chat; it spread to parents, the school had to deal with it, and the boy was suspended (sent home from school for some days). # 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): R4-particle ×1, R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Dublin Dublin PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 shared share VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 7 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 10 amod _ _ 8 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 7 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=9:punct 9 up up ADP RP _ 7 compound:prt _ Agree=R4-particle|Haiku=7:compound 10 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 11 about about ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 teacher teacher NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod _ _ 14 in in ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 group group NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 17 chat chat NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:nmod 18 ; ; PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 spread spread VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 21 to to ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 parents parent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obl _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 school school NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 26 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 27 to to PART TO _ 28 mark _ _ 28 deal deal VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 xcomp _ _ 29 with with ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 obl _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nsubj:pass _ _ 35 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 36 aux:pass _ _ 36 suspended suspend VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 conj _ _ 37 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 38 punct _ _ 38 sent send VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 36 conj _ _ 39 home home ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ _ 40 from from ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 41 school school NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obl _ _ 42 for for ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 43 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 44 det _ _ 44 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=36:obl 45 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 38 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=36:punct 46 . . 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 | **share** | past | a boy in Dublin | a made story | | a group chat | | about a teacher | tree rules | | 2 | **make up** | participle | | | | | | | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **spread** | past | story | | | | | to parents | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **have** | past | the school | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **deal** | to-infinitive | the school *not said here* | | | | | with school | vn cope-83 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with it=Theme | | 6 | **suspend** | past · passive | | the boy | | | | | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 7 | **send** | participle | | | | school | day | home *property* | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent from school=Initial\_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:22`. **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): R4-particle ×1, R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2, 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, 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/202-rumours-and-gossip/21/) - next →: [Rumours and gossip, 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/202-rumours-and-gossip/23/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/202-rumours-and-gossip/)