How to handle gossip: is it true, is it kind, would I say it to their face, sentence 9
A classmate's family, like where a dad works or why parents are sad, is private; don't pass on what you heard.
Who acts: dad, parents, family, you · What happens: work, be, not pass on, hear
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 (dad, parents, family, 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 classmate | det |
| 2 | classmate | classmate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 family | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 classmate | case |
| 4 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 private | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 family | punct |
| 6 | like | like | SCONJ | _ | 10 works | mark |
| 7 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 10 works | advmod |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 dad | det |
| 9 | dad | dad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 works | nsubj |
| 10 | works | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 family | acl |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 15 sad | cc |
| 12 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 sad | advmod |
| 13 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 sad | nsubj |
| 14 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 sad | cop |
| 15 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 works | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 family | punct |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 private | cop |
| 18 | private | private | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 private | punct |
| 20 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 22 pass | aux |
| 21 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 pass | advmod |
| 22 | pass | pass | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 18 private | parataxis |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 pass | compound:prt |
| 24 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 pass | obj |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 heard | nsubj |
| 26 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 what | acl:relcl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 private | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | work | present | a dad | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | present | parents | sad property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | present | a classmate's family | private property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | not pass on | infinitive · do-support | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | hear | past | you | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer |
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:9.
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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×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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