Rumours and gossip, sentence 18
Correcting a rumour you passed on helps undo the harm.
Who acts: you, Correcting · What happens: correct, pass on, help, undo · To what, where: rumour, harm
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 (you, Correcting), 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 | Correcting | correct | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 helps | csubj |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 rumour | det |
| 3 | rumour | rumour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Correcting | obj |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 passed | nsubj |
| 5 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 rumour | acl:relcl |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 passed | compound:prt |
| 7 | helps | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | undo | undo | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 helps | xcomp |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 harm | det |
| 10 | harm | harm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 undo | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 helps | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | correct speech: disagree | gerund | a rumour | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent rumour=Patient | |||||
| 2 | pass on | past | you | a rumour not said here | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rumour=Theme | ||||
| 3 | help | present | Correcting | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | undo | infinitive | Correcting not said here | the harm | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent harm=Patient |
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:18.
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.
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