Rumours and gossip, sentence 23
A rumour can spread to hundreds of people in a day online, and the truth hardly ever catches up with it.
Who acts: rumour, truth · What happens: spread, catch up
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 (rumour, truth), 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 rumour | det |
| 2 | rumour | rumour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 spread | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 spread | aux |
| 4 | spread | spread | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 hundreds | case |
| 6 | hundreds | hundred | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 spread | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 people | case |
| 8 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 hundreds | nmod |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 day | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 day | det |
| 11 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 spread | obl |
| 12 | online | online | ADV | _ | 4 spread | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 catches | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 catches | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 truth | det |
| 16 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 catches | nsubj |
| 17 | hardly | hardly | ADV | _ | 19 catches | advmod |
| 18 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 19 catches | advmod |
| 19 | catches | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 spread | conj |
| 20 | up | up | ADP | _ | 19 catches | compound:prt |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 it | case |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 catches | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 spread | 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 | spread | can | a rumour | day | to hundreds of people; online property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | catch up | present | the truth | ever | with rumour; hardly property | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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:23.
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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