How to handle gossip: is it true, is it kind, would I say it to their face, sentence 10
Explaining away someone's good marks as "copying" is usually jealousy dressed as news.
Who acts: Explaining, someone · What happens: explain away, be, dress, mark · To what, where: good marks, jealousy
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 (Explaining, someone), 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 | Explaining | explain | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 jealousy | csubj |
| 2 | away | away | ADV | _ | 1 Explaining | advmod |
| 3 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 6 marks | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 someone | case |
| 5 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 marks | amod |
| 6 | marks | mark | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Explaining | obj |
| 7 | as | as | ADP | _ | 9 copying | case |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 copying | punct |
| 9 | copying | copying | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Explaining | obl |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 copying | punct |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 jealousy | cop |
| 12 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 13 jealousy | advmod |
| 13 | jealousy | jealousy | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 14 | dressed | dress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 jealousy | acl |
| 15 | as | as | ADP | _ | 16 news | case |
| 16 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 dressed | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 jealousy | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- evaluate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- neg
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | explain away speech: assert | gerund | someone's good marks | as copying; away property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mark=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | Explaining | jealousy | usually property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | dress | participle | jealousy not said here | as news | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | mark | someone | nom mark «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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:10.
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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