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title: Example: a rumour spreads in a school in Phoenix that a scary charac… — Rumours and gossip · tree and pragmatics
description: Example: a rumour spreads in a school in Phoenix that a scary character is coming to school. Who acts: rumour, scary character. 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 5

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Example: a rumour spreads in a school in Phoenix that a scary character is coming to school.

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**Who acts:** rumour, scary character · **What happens:** spread, come · **To what, where:** school, rumour

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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 (rumour, scary character), 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:5
# text = Example: a rumour spreads in a school in Phoenix that a scary character is coming 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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	Example	example	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:dep
2	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	rumour	rumour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	spreads	spread	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	appos	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Phoenix	Phoenix	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	scary	scary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	character	character	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	coming	come	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	acl	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=5:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spread** | present | a rumour |  |  | a school in Phoenix |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in school=Location |
| 2 | **come** | present · progressive | a scary character | a rumour *not said here* |  |  |  | to school | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location rumour=Theme |

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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:5`.

**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 ×2, R6-punct-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/).

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