Rumours about classmates and what to do with a secret, sentence 10

If a friend is being gossiped about, be kind to her and tell a trusted adult rather than repeating the cruel words.

Who acts: you · What happens: gossip, be, tell, trust, repeat · To what, where: friend, trusted adult, cruel words · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Rumours about classmates and what to do with a secret» 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 (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	If	if	SCONJ	_	6 gossiped	mark
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 friend	det
3	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gossiped	nsubj:pass
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 gossiped	aux:pass
5	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 gossiped	aux:pass
6	gossiped	gossip	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 kind	advcl
7	about	about	ADV	_	6 gossiped	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 gossiped	punct
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 kind	cop
10	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 her	case
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 kind	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 tell	cc
14	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 kind	conj
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 adult	det
16	trusted	trust	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 adult	amod
17	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 tell	obj
18	rather	rather	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	20 repeating	cc
19	than	than	ADP	_	18 rather	fixed
20	repeating	repeat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 adult	conj
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 words	det
22	cruel	cruel	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 words	amod
23	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 repeating	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 kind	punct

Pragmatics

form: command
act: suggest
voice: narrator
polarity: neg
teacher: changed form=imp, act=suggest

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	gossip speech: other a condition, not said to happen	present · passive		a friend		about property	tree rules
2	is	imperative	you not said here		friend	kind property	tree rules
3	tell speech: assert	infinitive	you not said here		a trusted adult		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient
4	trust	participle					vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	repeat	gerund	you not said here	the cruel words			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Eventuality

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:050-rumours-about-classmates-and-secrets.lesson:10.

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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