How to handle gossip: is it true, is it kind, would I say it to their face, sentence 17
Online is not the same as true: check where a story comes from and its date, and look for two trusted sources before sharing news; if you are not sure, "I don't know" is a fine answer.
Who acts: Online, story, you, I · What happens: not be, check, come, look, trust, share · To what, where: date, news, fine answer · 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 (Online, story, you, I), 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 | Online | online | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 same | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 same | cop |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 same | advmod |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 same | det |
| 5 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | as | as | ADP | _ | 7 true | case |
| 7 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 same | obl |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 check | punct |
| 9 | check | check | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 same | parataxis |
| 10 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 13 comes | advmod |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 story | det |
| 12 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 comes | nsubj |
| 13 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 check | advcl |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 date | case |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 date | cc |
| 16 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 date | nmod:poss |
| 17 | date | date | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 comes | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 look | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 look | cc |
| 20 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 check | conj |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 sources | case |
| 22 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 sources | nummod |
| 23 | trusted | trust | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 sources | amod |
| 24 | sources | source | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 look | obl |
| 25 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 26 sharing | mark |
| 26 | sharing | share | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 look | advcl |
| 27 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 sharing | obj |
| 28 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 33 sure | punct |
| 29 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 33 sure | mark |
| 30 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 33 sure | nsubj |
| 31 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 sure | cop |
| 32 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 33 sure | advmod |
| 33 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 check | advcl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 know | punct |
| 35 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 39 know | punct |
| 36 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 39 know | nsubj |
| 37 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 39 know | aux |
| 38 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 39 know | advmod |
| 39 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 44 answer | parataxis |
| 40 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 39 know | punct |
| 41 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 44 answer | cop |
| 42 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 44 answer | det |
| 43 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 answer | amod |
| 44 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 sure | ccomp |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 same | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- evaluate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | present | Online | as true; same property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | check | infinitive | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | come | present | a story | story's date | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from date=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | look | infinitive | for two trusted sources | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for source=Theme | |||||
| 5 | trust | participle | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 6 | share | gerund | news | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | not is a condition, not said to happen | present | you | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | not know in a quote | present · do-support | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 9 | be speech: assert | present | you not said here | a fine answer | 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:17.
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): 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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