Rumours and gossip, sentence 5
Example: a rumour spreads in a school in Phoenix that a scary character is coming to school.
Who acts: rumour, scary character · What happens: spread, come · To what, where: school, rumour
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, scary character), 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 | Example | example | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 rumour | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 rumour | det |
| 4 | rumour | rumour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 spreads | nsubj |
| 5 | spreads | spread | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Example | appos |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 school | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 school | det |
| 8 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 spreads | obl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 Phoenix | case |
| 10 | Phoenix | Phoenix | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 school | nmod |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 coming | mark |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 character | det |
| 13 | scary | scary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 character | amod |
| 14 | character | character | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 coming | nsubj |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 coming | aux |
| 16 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 rumour | acl |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 school | case |
| 18 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 coming | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Example | 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 | spread | present | a rumour | a school in Phoenix | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in school=Location | ||||
| 2 | come | present · progressive | a scary character | a rumour not said here | to school | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location rumour=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:5.
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 ×2, R6-punct-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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