Rumours and gossip, sentence 22
A boy in Dublin shared a made-up story about a teacher in a group chat; it spread to parents, the school had to deal with it, and the boy was suspended (sent home from school for some days).
Who acts: boy, story, school · What happens: share, make up, spread, have, deal, suspend · To what, where: made story, group chat, boy, 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 (boy, story, school), 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 boy | det |
| 2 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 shared | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Dublin | case |
| 4 | Dublin | Dublin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 boy | nmod |
| 5 | shared | share | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 story | det |
| 7 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 story | amod |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 made | punct |
| 9 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 made | compound:prt |
| 10 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 shared | obj |
| 11 | about | about | ADP | _ | 13 teacher | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 teacher | det |
| 13 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 story | nmod |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 chat | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 chat | det |
| 16 | group | group | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 chat | compound |
| 17 | chat | chat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 shared | obl |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 spread | punct |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 spread | nsubj |
| 20 | spread | spread | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 shared | parataxis |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 parents | case |
| 22 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 spread | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 had | punct |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 school | det |
| 25 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 had | nsubj |
| 26 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 shared | conj |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 deal | mark |
| 28 | deal | deal | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 had | xcomp |
| 29 | with | with | ADP | _ | 30 it | case |
| 30 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 deal | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 suspended | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 suspended | cc |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 boy | det |
| 34 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 suspended | nsubj:pass |
| 35 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 suspended | aux:pass |
| 36 | suspended | suspend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 shared | conj |
| 37 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 38 sent | punct |
| 38 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 36 suspended | conj |
| 39 | home | home | ADV | _ | 38 sent | advmod |
| 40 | from | from | ADP | _ | 41 school | case |
| 41 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 sent | obl |
| 42 | for | for | ADP | _ | 44 days | case |
| 43 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 44 days | det |
| 44 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 sent | obl |
| 45 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 38 sent | punct |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 shared | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | share | past | a boy in Dublin | a made story | a group chat | about a teacher | tree rules | ||
| 2 | make up | participle | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | spread | past | story | to parents | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | have | past | the school | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | deal | to-infinitive | the school not said here | with school | vn cope-83 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with it=Theme | ||||
| 6 | suspend | past · passive | the boy | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 7 | send | participle | school | day | home property | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent from school=Initial_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:22.
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): R4-particle ×1, R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2, 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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