Rumours and gossip, sentence 12
Rumours about crushes can embarrass people badly and spread fast.
Who acts: Rumours · What happens: embarrass, spread · To what, where: people
This is a sentence of the lesson «Rumours and gossip» of the everyday 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 (Rumours), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rumours | rumour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 embarrass | nsubj |
| 2 | about | about | ADP | _ | 3 crushes | case |
| 3 | crushes | crush | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Rumours | nmod |
| 4 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 embarrass | aux |
| 5 | embarrass | embarrass | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 embarrass | obj |
| 7 | badly | badly | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 embarrass | advmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 spread | cc |
| 9 | spread | spread | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 embarrass | conj |
| 10 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 spread | advmod |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 embarrass | punct |
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 | embarrass | can | Rumours about crushes | people | badly property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus people=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | spread | infinitive | Rumours about crushes not said here | fast property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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, 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:everyday:202-rumours-and-gossip.lesson:12.
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): no change. 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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