How to handle gossip: is it true, is it kind, would I say it to their face, sentence 5

It's not my story to tell." She hangs up and winks at you: "Best sentence I know, that one."

Who acts: bottle, Karen, I · What happens: not be, tell, hang up, wink, know · To what, where: story, Best sentence · 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 (bottle, Karen, 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 story	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 story	cop
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 story	advmod
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 story	nmod:poss
5	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 tell	mark
7	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 story	acl
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 story	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 hangs	punct
10	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 hangs	nsubj
11	hangs	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 story	parataxis
12	up	up	ADP	_	11 hangs	compound:prt
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 winks	cc
14	winks	wink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 hangs	conj
15	at	at	ADP	_	16 you	case
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 winks	obl
17	:	:	PUNCT	_	20 sentence	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 sentence	punct
19	Best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	20 sentence	amod
20	sentence	sentence	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 story	appos
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 know	nsubj
22	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 sentence	acl:relcl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 one	punct
24	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	25 one	det
25	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 story	appos
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	25 one	punct
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	25 one	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not is a	present	bottle	my story		tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	hang up in a quote	present	Karen			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	wink in a quote	present	Karen not said here		at you	vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	know	present	I	Best sentence not said here		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer sentence=Stimulus

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:5.

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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