How to handle gossip: is it true, is it kind, would I say it to their face, sentence 3

Vivid example: in Toronto, Mum is on the phone with her friend: "And you'll never guess what Karen's — actually, no.

Who acts: Mum, you · What happens: be, not guess · To what, where: phone · 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 (Mum, you), 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	Vivid	vivid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 example	amod
2	example	example	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 phone	dislocated
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 Mum	punct
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 Toronto	case
5	Toronto	Toronto	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 phone	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 Toronto	punct
7	Mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 phone	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 phone	cop
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 phone	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 phone	det
11	phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
12	with	with	ADP	_	14 friend	case
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 friend	nmod:poss
14	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 phone	nmod
15	:	:	PUNCT	_	21 guess	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 guess	punct
17	And	and	CCONJ	_	21 guess	cc
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 guess	nsubj
19	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 guess	aux
20	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	21 guess	advmod
21	guess	guess	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 phone	parataxis
22	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	21 guess	ccomp
23	Karen	Karen	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 what	nsubj
24	's	's	PART	_	23 Karen	case
25	—	-	PUNCT	_	21 guess	punct
26	actually	actually	ADV	_	21 guess	advmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 no.	punct
28	no.	no	INTJ	_	11 phone	parataxis

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: warn
voice: character
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Mum			the phone		in Toronto; with person's friend; Vivid example dislocated	tree rules
2	not guess in a quote	future	you					actually property	vn conjecture-29.5-1 «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:3.

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): no change. 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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