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title: The fix: go back to the start, ask the person who was there, and tru… — The rumour that grows · tree and pragmatics
description: The fix: go back to the start, ask the person who was there, and trust the right source, like the school office. Who acts: fix, person. A sentence of the lesson «The rumour that grows» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The rumour that grows, sentence 11

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The fix: go back to the start, ask the person who was there, and trust the right source, like the school office.

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**Who acts:** fix, person · **What happens:** go back, ask, be, trust · **To what, where:** person, right source

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The rumour that grows» of the world 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 (fix, person), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:167-the-rumour-that-grows.lesson:11
# text = The fix: go back to the start, ask the person who was there, and trust the right source, like the school office.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 167-the-rumour-that-grows.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): R6-punct-agree ×2
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	fix	fix	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
3	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
4	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	acl	_	_
5	back	back	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	start	start	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct
10	ask	ask	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
15	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	12	acl:relcl	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	trust	trust	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	source	source	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	like	like	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	office	office	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=10:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go back** | infinitive | the fix *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | infinitive | the fix |  | the person |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent person=Recipient |
| 3 | **is** | past | the person |  |  |  |  | there *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **trust** | infinitive | the fix *not said here* | the right source |  |  |  | like the school office | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent source=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:world:167-the-rumour-that-grows.lesson:11`.

**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): R6-punct-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/).

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