--- title: Gossip spreads very fast; whoever starts a secret moving shares the… — Things I'm ashamed of: crowds, cruelty and comin… · tree and pragmatics description: Gossip spreads very fast; whoever starts a secret moving shares the blame even if others spread it further. Who acts: Gossip, whoever, others. 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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 (Gossip, whoever, others), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:reflection:016-things-im-ashamed-of-crowds-cruelty-and-coming-clean.lesson:18 # text = Gossip spreads very fast; whoever starts a secret moving shares the blame even if others spread it further. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = reflection # lesson = 016-things-im-ashamed-of-crowds-cruelty-and-coming-clean.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, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Gossip gossip NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 spreads spread VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 very very ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 fast fast ADV RB Degree=Pos 2 advmod _ _ 5 ; ; PUNCT : _ 7 punct _ _ 6 whoever whoever PRON WP PronType=Rel 7 nsubj _ _ 7 starts start VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 csubj _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:det 9 secret secret ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 10 moving moving NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:acl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 11 shares share VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 blame blame NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 14 even even ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 15 if if SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 16 others other NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=17:nsubj|HaikuPos=PRON:NNS:Number=Plur|PronType=Ind 17 spread spread VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 advcl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=11:advcl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBD:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 obj _ _ 19 further further ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 20 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **spread** | present | Gossip | | | | | fast *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **start** | present | whoever | a secret moving | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent moving=Eventuality | | 3 | **share** | present | | the blame | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **spread** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | others | blame | | | | further *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme | 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:reflection:016-things-im-ashamed-of-crowds-cruelty-and-coming-clean.lesson:18`. **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, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2. **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. 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