The rumour that grows, sentence 2
A rumour is a story passed from person to person without anyone checking it.
Who acts: rumour · What happens: be, pass, check · To what, where: story, person
This is a sentence of the lesson «The rumour that grows» of the world 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), 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 | 5 story | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 story | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 story | det |
| 5 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 story | acl |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 person | case |
| 8 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 passed | obl |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 person | case |
| 10 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 passed | obl |
| 11 | without | without | ADP | _ | 12 anyone | case |
| 12 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 10 person | nmod |
| 13 | checking | check | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 anyone | acl |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 checking | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 story | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a rumour | a story | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | pass | participle | a story not said here | person without anyone | from person | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from person=Initial_Location to person=Destination | |||
| 3 | check | gerund | story | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 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:world:167-the-rumour-that-grows.lesson:2.
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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