--- title: If you passed on something untrue, go back to the people you told, s… — Rumours and gossip · tree and pragmatics description: If you passed on something untrue, go back to the people you told, say it was not true, and say sorry to the person it was about. Who acts: you, rumour. 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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 (you, rumour), 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:8 # text = If you passed on something untrue, go back to the people you told, say it was not true, and say sorry to the person it was 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): R5-strong ×1 1 If if SCONJ IN _ 3 mark _ _ 2 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 passed pass VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 advcl _ _ 4 on on ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 3 obl _ _ 6 untrue untrue ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:xcomp 7 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 8 go go VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 back back ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 10 to to ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl _ _ 13 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 acl:relcl _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 say say VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 17 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 18 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 cop _ _ 19 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 20 advmod _ _ 20 true true ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 ccomp _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 say say VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 24 sorry sorry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 obj _ _ 25 to to ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 28 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 29 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 acl:relcl _ _ 30 about about ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: suggest - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed form=imp, act=suggest | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **pass** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | you | | | something | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on something=Location | | 2 | **go back** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | to the people *result* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to people=Result | | 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | you | the people *not said here* | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent people=Recipient | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **not** **is** | past | rumour | | | | | true *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive | you *not said here* | sorry | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent sorry=Topic | 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:8`. **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, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/202-rumours-and-gossip/7/) - next →: [Rumours and gossip, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/202-rumours-and-gossip/9/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/202-rumours-and-gossip/)