How to handle gossip: is it true, is it kind, would I say it to their face, sentence 6
Three questions stop most cruel gossip: is it true, is it kind, is it needed?
Who acts: Three questions, Gossip · What happens: stop, be, need · To what, where: cruel gossip, Gossip
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 (Three questions, Gossip), 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 | Three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 questions | nummod |
| 2 | questions | question | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 stop | nsubj |
| 3 | stop | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 5 cruel | advmod |
| 5 | cruel | cruel | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 gossip | amod |
| 6 | gossip | gossip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stop | obj |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 stop | punct |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 true | cop |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 true | nsubj |
| 10 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 stop | parataxis |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 kind | punct |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 kind | cop |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 kind | nsubj |
| 14 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 stop | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 needed | punct |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 needed | aux:pass |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 needed | nsubj |
| 18 | needed | need | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 kind | advcl |
| 19 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 stop | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- yes/no question
- act
- ask
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | present | Three questions | cruel gossip | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality gossip=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | is | present | Gossip | true property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | present | Gossip | kind property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | need | present · passive | Gossip | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: subject=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:6.
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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