Things I'm ashamed of: crowds, cruelty and coming clean, sentence 18
Gossip spreads very fast; whoever starts a secret moving shares the blame even if others spread it further.
Who acts: Gossip, whoever, others · What happens: spread, start, share · To what, where: secret moving, blame
This is a sentence of the lesson «Things I'm ashamed of: crowds, cruelty and coming clean» of the reflection 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 (Gossip, whoever, others), 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 | Gossip | gossip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 spreads | nsubj |
| 2 | spreads | spread | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | 4 fast | advmod |
| 4 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 2 spreads | advmod |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 7 starts | punct |
| 6 | whoever | whoever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 starts | nsubj |
| 7 | starts | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 shares | csubj |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 moving | det |
| 9 | secret | secret | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 moving | amod |
| 10 | moving | moving | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 starts | obj |
| 11 | shares | share | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 spreads | parataxis |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 blame | det |
| 13 | blame | blame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 shares | obj |
| 14 | even | even | ADV | _ | 17 spread | advmod |
| 15 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 17 spread | mark |
| 16 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 spread | nsubj |
| 17 | spread | spread | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 shares | advcl |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 spread | obj |
| 19 | further | further | ADV | _ | 17 spread | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 spreads | 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 | present | Gossip | fast property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | start | present | whoever | a secret moving | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent moving=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | share | present | the blame | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | spread a condition, not said to happen | present | others | blame | further property | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=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:reflection:016-things-im-ashamed-of-crowds-cruelty-and-coming-clean.lesson:18.
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, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2. 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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