--- title: Ask "Who saw it?" and go back to the person who started it. — The rumour that grows · tree and pragmatics description: Ask "Who saw it?" and go back to the person who started it. Who acts: you, 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/167-the-rumour-that-grows/17/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/) / [The rumour that grows](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/167-the-rumour-that-grows/) / 17 # The rumour that grows, sentence 17 Ask "Who saw it?" and go back to the person who started it. **Who acts:** you, person · **What happens:** ask, see, go back, start · **To what, where:** version · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (you, 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:17 # text = Ask "Who saw it?" and go back to the person who started it. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Ask ask VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 " " PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ _ 3 Who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 4 nsubj _ _ 4 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 1 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=1:parataxis 5 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 obj _ _ 6 ? ? PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ 7 " " PUNCT '' _ 1 punct _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 go go VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ _ 10 back back ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 11 to to ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 14 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 15 nsubj _ _ 15 started start VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 acl:relcl _ _ 16 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 obj _ _ 17 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **see** *in a quote* | past | | version | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | | 3 | **go back** | infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | to the person *result* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to person=Result | | 4 | **start** | past | the person | version | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | 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:world:167-the-rumour-that-grows.lesson:17`. **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): 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/). - ← previous: [The rumour that grows, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/167-the-rumour-that-grows/16/) - next →: [The rumour that grows, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/167-the-rumour-that-grows/18/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/167-the-rumour-that-grows/)