Rumours and gossip, sentence 21

A girl in Texas passed on a rumour that a classmate had stolen money; it was not true, but other children stopped sitting with the classmate for weeks, and she cried every morning before school.

Who acts: girl, classmate, other children, child · What happens: pass, steal, not be, stop, sit, cry · To what, where: rumour, money, school

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 (girl, classmate, other children, child), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 girl	det
2	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 passed	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Texas	case
4	Texas	Texas	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 girl	nmod
5	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 rumour	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 rumour	det
8	rumour	rumour	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 passed	obl
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 stolen	mark
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 classmate	det
11	classmate	classmate	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 stolen	nsubj
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 stolen	aux
13	stolen	steal	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 rumour	acl
14	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 stolen	obj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 true	punct
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 true	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 true	cop
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 true	advmod
19	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 passed	parataxis
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 stopped	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 stopped	cc
22	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 children	amod
23	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 stopped	nsubj
24	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 passed	conj
25	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	24 stopped	xcomp
26	with	with	ADP	_	28 classmate	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 classmate	det
28	classmate	classmate	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 sitting	obl
29	for	for	ADP	_	30 weeks	case
30	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 sitting	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 cried	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 cried	cc
33	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 cried	nsubj
34	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 passed	conj
35	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	36 morning	det
36	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 cried	obl:unmarked
37	before	before	ADP	_	38 school	case
38	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 cried	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 passed	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pass	past	a girl in Texas		a rumour			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on rumour=Location
2	steal	past · perfect	a classmate	money				vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location money=Theme
3	not is	past	classmate				true property	tree rules
4	stop	past	other children					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
5	sit	gerund	other children not said here			week	with the classmate	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	cry speech: express	past	child		school	morning		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before school=Location

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:21.

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): R5-strong ×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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