Our street: feuds, newcomers and stories that grow, sentence 20
Bad-news gossip can feel caring but still spreads fear; offer help, not headlines.
Who acts: news gossip · What happens: feel, spread, offer · To what, where: fear, help
This is a sentence of the lesson «Our street: feuds, newcomers and stories that grow» of the adult life 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 (news gossip), 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 | Bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 news | amod |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Bad | punct |
| 3 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gossip | compound |
| 4 | gossip | gossip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 feel | nsubj |
| 5 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 feel | aux |
| 6 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | caring | caring | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 feel | xcomp |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 spreads | cc |
| 9 | still | still | ADV | _ | 10 spreads | advmod |
| 10 | spreads | spread | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 feel | conj |
| 11 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 spreads | obj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 offer | punct |
| 13 | offer | offer | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 6 feel | parataxis |
| 14 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 offer | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 headlines | punct |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 headlines | advmod |
| 17 | headlines | headline | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 help | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 feel | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | can | news gossip | caring property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | spread | present | news gossip not said here | fear | still | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location fear=Theme | |||
| 3 | offer | infinitive | help and headlines | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent help=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:adult-life:042-our-street-feuds-newcomers-and-stories-that-grow.lesson:20.
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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-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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