How to handle gossip: is it true, is it kind, would I say it to their face, sentence 19
A secret told to you is a gift; giving it away hurts the friend who trusted you.
Who acts: secret, giving, friend · What happens: tell, be, give away, hurt, trust · To what, where: secret, you, gift, friend · 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 (secret, giving, friend), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 secret | det |
| 2 | secret | secret | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 gift | nsubj |
| 3 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 secret | acl |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 you | case |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 told | obl |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 gift | cop |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 gift | det |
| 8 | gift | gift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 hurts | parataxis |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 hurts | punct |
| 10 | giving | give | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 hurts | csubj |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 giving | obj |
| 12 | away | away | ADV | _ | 10 giving | advmod |
| 13 | hurts | hurt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 friend | det |
| 15 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 hurts | obj |
| 16 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 trusted | nsubj |
| 17 | trusted | trust | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 friend | acl:relcl |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 trusted | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 gift | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | participle | a secret not said here | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent to you=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | a secret | a gift | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | give away | gerund | secret | away property | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 4 | hurt | present | giving | the friend | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer friend=Patient | ||||
| 5 | trust | past | the friend | you | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme |
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:19.
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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