--- title: Like the game of Chinese whispers (also called telephone), every tel… — The rumour that grows · tree and pragmatics description: Like the game of Chinese whispers (also called telephone), every telling can change it: words get dropped, details get added, and the boring version gets more exciting. Who acts: Chinese whispers, telling, boring version. 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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 (Chinese whispers, telling, boring version), 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:3 # text = Like the game of Chinese whispers (also called telephone), every telling can change it: words get dropped, details get added, and the boring version gets more exciting. # 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 ×2 1 Like like ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 game game NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 Chinese Chinese ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 whispers whisper NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nmod _ _ 7 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 9 punct _ _ 8 also also ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 9 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 acl _ _ 10 telephone telephone NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:obj 11 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 9 punct _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 13 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 14 det _ _ 14 telling telling NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 15 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 16 change change VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 17 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 obj _ _ 18 : : PUNCT : _ 21 punct _ _ 19 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nsubj:pass _ _ 20 get get AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 aux:pass _ _ 21 dropped drop VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 16 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:advcl 22 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 23 details detail NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nsubj:pass _ _ 24 get get AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 aux:pass _ _ 25 added add VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 21 conj _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 boring boring ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 version version NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 31 gets get VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 advcl _ _ 32 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 33 advmod _ _ 33 exciting exciting ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 xcomp _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 16 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **call** | participle | Chinese whispers *not said here* | telephone | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **change** | can | every telling | telephone | | | | like the game of Chinese whispers | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | | 3 | **drop** | present · passive | | words | | | | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 4 | **add** *speech: assert* | present · passive | | details | | | | | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 5 | **get** | present | the boring version | | | | | exciting *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | 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:3`. **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 ×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: [The rumour that grows, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/167-the-rumour-that-grows/2/) - next →: [The rumour that grows, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/167-the-rumour-that-grows/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/167-the-rumour-that-grows/)