How to handle gossip: is it true, is it kind, would I say it to their face, sentence 16

Enjoying a silly, obviously made-up story is fine, as long as everyone knows it is silly; friendly chat that keeps sad things private is fine too.

Who acts: Enjoying, everyone, story, friendly chat · What happens: enjoy, make up, be, know, keep · To what, where: silly made story, sad things · 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 (Enjoying, everyone, story, friendly chat), 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	Enjoying	enjoy	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 fine	csubj
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 story	det
3	silly	silly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 story	amod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Enjoying	punct
5	obviously	obviously	ADV	_	6 made	advmod
6	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 story	amod
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 up	punct
8	up	up	ADP	_	6 made	compound:prt
9	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Enjoying	obj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 fine	cop
11	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 fine	punct
13	as	as	ADV	_	14 long	advmod
14	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	11 fine	advmod
15	as	as	SCONJ	_	17 knows	mark
16	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	17 knows	nsubj
17	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 long	advcl
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 silly	nsubj
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 silly	cop
20	silly	silly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 knows	ccomp
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 chat	punct
22	friendly	friendly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 chat	amod
23	chat	chat	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 fine	nsubj
24	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 keeps	nsubj
25	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 chat	acl:relcl
26	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 things	amod
27	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 keeps	obj
28	private	private	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 keeps	xcomp
29	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 fine	cop
30	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 fine	conj
31	too	too	ADV	_	30 fine	advmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 fine	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	enjoy	gerund		a silly made story		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer story=Stimulus
2	make up	participle			obviously property	vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
3	is	present	Enjoying		fine, long property	tree rules
4	know	present	everyone			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	is	present	story		silly property	tree rules
6	keep	present	friendly chat	sad things	private property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme
7	is	present	friendly chat		fine 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:16.

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): 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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