tattler

Who acts: tattler, person, you · What happens: be, tell, spread, get, do, not be · To what, where: person, secrets, gossip, trouble, tattler, everything · Speech: someone speaks here

«tattler» in the school dictionary: its meaning for a pupil and its 2 examples, every sentence parsed by Mova itself — its syntax tree, a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies, and its pragmatics clause by clause. The word in the dictionary, with its sense in the lessons: tattler in the school dictionary.

Meaning 1

A tattler is a person who tells other people's secrets or spreads gossip, often to get into trouble.

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 tattler	det
2	tattler	tattler	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 person	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 person	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 person	det
5	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 tells	nsubj
7	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 person	acl:relcl
8	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 people	amod
9	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 secrets	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 people	case
11	secrets	secret	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 tells	obj
12	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 spreads	cc
13	spreads	spread	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 tells	conj
14	gossip	gossip	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 spreads	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 get	punct
16	often	often	ADV	_	18 get	advmod
17	to	to	PART	_	18 get	mark
18	get	get	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	13 spreads	conj
19	into	into	ADP	_	20 trouble	case
20	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 get	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 person	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a tattler	a person			tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	present	a person	other people's secrets			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent secret=Recipient
3	spread	present	a person not said here	gossip			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location gossip=Theme
4	get	to-infinitive	a person not said here		trouble	often property	vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into trouble=Destination

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.

Example 1

Don't be a tattler and tell the teacher everything.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Do	do	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 tattler	advmod
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 tattler	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 tattler	det
5	tattler	tattler	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Do	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 tell	cc
7	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Do	conj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 everything	det
9	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 everything	compound
10	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	7 tell	obj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	imperative	you not said here		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	not is a	infinitive		a tattler	tree rules
3	tell speech: assert	infinitive	you not said here	everything	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent everything=Recipient

Example 2

The tattler spread the story around the village.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 tattler	det
2	tattler	tattler	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 spread	nsubj
3	spread	spread	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 story	det
5	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 spread	obj
6	around	around	ADP	_	8 village	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 village	det
8	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 story	nmod
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 spread	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spread	past	the tattler	the story		the village			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent story=Theme around village=Destination

Text: the school dictionary of Mova's schools (world/data/dictionary-schools/), written for Mova. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each meaning and example read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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