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title: Being the target of rumours can make a child lonely, anxious and afr… — Rumours and gossip · tree and pragmatics
description: Being the target of rumours can make a child lonely, anxious and afraid to go to school. Who acts: child. 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.
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# Rumours and gossip, sentence 24

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Being the target of rumours can make a child lonely, anxious and afraid to go to school.

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**Who acts:** child · **What happens:** be, make, go · **To what, where:** target, child, school

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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 (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:24
# text = Being the target of rumours can make a child lonely, anxious and afraid to go to 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): no change
1	Being	be	AUX	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	cop	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	target	target	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	csubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	rumours	rumour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
6	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	lonely	lonely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	xcomp	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	anxious	anxious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	afraid	afraid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **is a** | gerund |  | the target |  |  |  | of rumours | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** | can |  | a child |  |  |  | lonely *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset child=Product |
| 3 | **go** | to-infinitive | a child *not said here* |  |  | school |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to school=Initial\_Location |

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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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**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:24`.

**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/).

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