How to handle gossip: is it true, is it kind, would I say it to their face, sentence 0

Gossip is not only about famous people; most of it is about the people right next to you, in the lunch queue, the group chat and the playground.

Who acts: Gossip, most · What happens: not be, be · To what, where: lunch queue

This is a sentence of the lesson «How to handle gossip: is it true, is it kind, would I say it to their face» 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 (Gossip, most), 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	7 people	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 people	cop
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 people	advmod
4	only	only	ADV	_	7 people	advmod
5	about	about	ADP	_	7 people	case
6	famous	famous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 people	amod
7	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 people	punct
9	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	15 people	nsubj
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 it	case
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 most	nmod
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 people	cop
13	about	about	ADP	_	15 people	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 people	det
15	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 people	parataxis
16	right	right	ADV	_	17 next	advmod
17	next	next	ADV	_	15 people	advmod
18	to	to	ADP	_	19 you	case
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 next	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 queue	punct
21	in	in	ADP	_	24 queue	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 queue	det
23	lunch	lunch	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 queue	compound
24	queue	queue	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 people	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 chat	punct
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 chat	det
27	group	group	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 chat	compound
28	chat	chat	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 queue	conj
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 playground	cc
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 playground	det
31	playground	playground	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 queue	conj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 people	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	present	Gossip					about famous people	tree rules
2	is	present	most of Gossip			the lunch queue and the group chat and the playground		about the people; next 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:adult-life:049-how-to-handle-gossip.lesson:0.

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, R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×3, R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-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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