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title: Rumours about where a family's money comes from can be cruel; say th… — Friends who only come for the pool: rich kids an… · tree and pragmatics
description: Rumours about where a family's money comes from can be cruel; say the truth calmly and tell a teacher if it keeps going. Who acts: money, Rumours, you. A sentence of the lesson «Friends who only come for the pool: rich kids and rumours» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its depend
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# Friends who only come for the pool: rich kids and rumours, sentence 32

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Rumours about where a family's money comes from can be cruel; say the truth calmly and tell a teacher if it keeps going.

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**Who acts:** money, Rumours, you · **What happens:** come, be, say, tell, keep, go · **To what, where:** truth, teacher · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Friends who only come for the pool: rich kids and rumours» 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 (money, Rumours, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:492-friends-who-only-come-for-the-pool-rich-kids-and-rumours.lesson:32
# text = Rumours about where a family's money comes from can be cruel; say the truth calmly and tell a teacher if it keeps going.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 492-friends-who-only-come-for-the-pool-rich-kids-and-rumours.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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Rumours	rumour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
2	about	about	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
3	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	8	advmod	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	acl:relcl	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:advmod
10	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	cop	_	_
12	cruel	cruel	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	parataxis	_	_
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
14	say	say	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	truth	truth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:obj
17	calmly	calmly	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	tell	tell	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	teacher	teacher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	iobj	_	_
22	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	keeps	keep	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	advcl	_	_
25	going	go	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	24	xcomp	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=14:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **come** | present | a family's money |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | can | Rumours |  |  |  |  | cruel *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | imperative | you *not said here* | the truth |  |  |  | calmly *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent truth=Topic |
| 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive | you *not said here* |  | a teacher |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent teacher=Recipient |
| 5 | **keep** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | money |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **go** | gerund | money *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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:492-friends-who-only-come-for-the-pool-rich-kids-and-rumours.lesson:32`.

**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, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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/).

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