Thinking cleverly about people, sentence 21
Spreading a rumour can hurt someone badly even when it turns out to be false.
Who acts: Spreading, rumour · What happens: spread, hurt, turn out, be · To what, where: rumour, someone
This is a sentence of the lesson «Thinking cleverly about people» 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 (Spreading, rumour), 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 | Spreading | spread | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 hurt | csubj |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 rumour | det |
| 3 | rumour | rumour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Spreading | obj |
| 4 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 hurt | aux |
| 5 | hurt | hurt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 5 hurt | obj |
| 7 | badly | badly | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 hurt | advmod |
| 8 | even | even | ADV | _ | 11 turns | advmod |
| 9 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 turns | advmod |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 turns | nsubj |
| 11 | turns | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 hurt | advcl |
| 12 | out | out | ADP | _ | 11 turns | compound:prt |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 false | mark |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 false | cop |
| 15 | false | false | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 turns | xcomp |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 hurt | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spread | gerund | a rumour | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location rumour=Theme | |||||
| 2 | hurt | can | Spreading | someone | badly property | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer someone=Patient | |||
| 3 | turn out | present | rumour | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | is | to-infinitive | rumour not said here | false property | tree rules |
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:060-reasoning-about-people.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): 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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