--- title: Rumours spread fast after something terrible happens and are often w… — Accidents, wars and deaths on the news · tree and pragmatics description: Rumours spread fast after something terrible happens and are often wrong; it is better to wait for what school or family say. Who acts: Rumours, something, school. 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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 (Rumours, something, school), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:religion-ethics:060-accidents-wars-and-deaths-on-the-news.lesson:14 # text = Rumours spread fast after something terrible happens and are often wrong; it is better to wait for what school or family say. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = religion-ethics # lesson = 060-accidents-wars-and-deaths-on-the-news.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 ×4, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Rumours rumour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 spread spread VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 parataxis _ _ 3 fast fast ADV RB Degree=Pos 2 advmod _ _ 4 after after SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 5 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 7 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:obl 6 terrible terrible ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 7 happens happen VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:acl:relcl 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 9 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 10 often often ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 11 wrong wrong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 conj _ _ 12 ; ; PUNCT : _ 15 punct _ _ 13 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 expl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:nsubj 14 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 15 better good ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 0 root _ _ 16 to to PART TO _ 17 mark _ _ 17 wait wait VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:xcomp 18 for for ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 20 nsubj _ _ 20 school school NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:obl 21 or or CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 conj _ _ 23 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 advcl _ _ 24 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=15:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **spread** | present | Rumours | | | | | fast *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **happen** | present | something | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **is** | present | Rumours *not said here* | | | | | often, wrong *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **is** | present | | | | | | good *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **wait** | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive | school or family | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | 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:religion-ethics:060-accidents-wars-and-deaths-on-the-news.lesson:14`. **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 ×4, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Accidents, wars and deaths on the news, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/60-accidents-wars-and-deaths-on-the-news/13/) - next →: [Accidents, wars and deaths on the news, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/60-accidents-wars-and-deaths-on-the-news/15/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/60-accidents-wars-and-deaths-on-the-news/)