How to handle gossip: is it true, is it kind, would I say it to their face, sentence 2

A rumour grows each time it is passed on: a spilled water bottle becomes "she wet herself", "he's away working" becomes "he's in prison", and Lily said Maya said Zoe said becomes something Hannah never said.

Who acts: rumour, time, spilled water bottle, person, he, Lily · What happens: grow, pass on, spill, become, wet, work · To what, where: rumour, person, prison, something · 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 (rumour, time, spilled water bottle, person), 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 rumour	det
2	rumour	rumour	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 grows	nsubj
3	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	5 time	det
5	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 grows	obl:unmarked
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 passed	nsubj:pass
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 passed	aux:pass
8	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 time	acl:relcl
9	on	on	ADP	_	8 passed	compound:prt
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	15 becomes	punct
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 bottle	det
12	spilled	spill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 bottle	amod
13	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 bottle	compound
14	bottle	bottle	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 becomes	nsubj
15	becomes	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 grows	parataxis
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 wet	punct
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 wet	nsubj
18	wet	wet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 becomes	ccomp
19	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	18 wet	obj
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 wet	punct
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 grows	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 grows	punct
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 working	nsubj
24	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 working	aux
25	away	away	ADV	_	26 working	advmod
26	working	work	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 grows	conj
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	28 becomes	punct
28	becomes	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 working	conj
29	"	"	PUNCT	_	33 prison	punct
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 prison	nsubj
31	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 prison	cop
32	in	in	ADP	_	33 prison	case
33	prison	prison	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 becomes	ccomp
34	"	"	PUNCT	_	33 prison	punct
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 said	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 said	cc
37	Lily	Lily	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 said	nsubj
38	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 working	conj
39	Maya	Maya	PROPN	Number=Sing	40 said	nsubj
40	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 said	ccomp
41	Zoe	Zoe	PROPN	Number=Sing	42 said	nsubj
42	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 said	ccomp
43	becomes	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	42 said	ccomp
44	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	43 becomes	obj
45	Hannah	Hannah	PROPN	Number=Sing	47 said	nsubj
46	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	47 said	advmod
47	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 something	acl:relcl
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 grows	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed voice=narrator

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	present	a rumour			time		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	pass on	present · passive	each time not said here	rumour				vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	spill	participle						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	become	present	a spilled water bottle					tree rules
5	wet in a quote	past	person	person				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent herself=Patient
6	work in a quote	present · progressive	he				away property	vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	become	present	he not said here					vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
8	is in a quote	present	he		prison			tree rules
9	say speech: assert	past	Lily					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
10	say speech: assert	past	Maya					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
11	say speech: assert	past	Zoe					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
12	become	present		something				vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Patient something=Result
13	not say speech: assert	past	Hannah					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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:2.

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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×5. 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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