How to handle gossip: is it true, is it kind, would I say it to their face, sentence 12
"It's not my story to tell" means keeping a friend's news for the friend to share.
Who acts: family · What happens: not be, tell, mean, keep, share · To what, where: story, news · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (family), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 story | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 story | nsubj |
| 3 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 story | cop |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 story | advmod |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 story | nmod:poss |
| 6 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 means | ccomp |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 tell | mark |
| 8 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 story | acl |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 story | punct |
| 10 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | keeping | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 means | xcomp |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 friend | det |
| 13 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 news | nmod:poss |
| 14 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 13 friend | case |
| 15 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 keeping | obj |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 friend | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 friend | det |
| 18 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 news | nmod |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 share | mark |
| 20 | share | share | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 keeping | advcl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 means | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a in a quote | present | family | my story | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert in a quote | to-infinitive | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | mean | present | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 4 | keep not said to happen | gerund | a friend's news | for the friend | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent news=Theme | ||||
| 5 | share | to-infinitive | 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:12.
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): R6-punct-agree ×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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