Rumours about classmates and what to do with a secret, sentence 19

If you spread something hurtful, say sorry and tell people it wasn't true; you can also simply refuse to listen to cruel gossip.

Who acts: you, story · What happens: spread, say, tell, not be, refuse, not listen · To what, where: something, people · 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, story), 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	_	3 spread	mark
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 spread	nsubj
3	spread	spread	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 say	advcl
4	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	3 spread	obj
5	hurtful	hurtful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 something	amod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 spread	punct
7	say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	sorry	sorry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 say	ccomp
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 tell	cc
10	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	7 say	conj
11	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 tell	iobj
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 true	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 true	cop
14	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 true	advmod
15	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 people	acl:relcl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 refuse	punct
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 refuse	nsubj
18	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 refuse	aux
19	also	also	ADV	_	21 refuse	advmod
20	simply	simply	ADV	_	21 refuse	advmod
21	refuse	refuse	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 say	parataxis
22	to	to	PART	_	23 listen	mark
23	listen	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 refuse	xcomp
24	to	to	ADP	_	26 gossip	case
25	cruel	cruel	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 gossip	amod
26	gossip	gossip	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 listen	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 say	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	spread a condition, not said to happen	present	you	something			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location something=Theme
2	say speech: assert	imperative	you not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	tell speech: assert	infinitive	you not said here		people		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent people=Recipient
4	not is	past	story	people not said here		true property	tree rules
5	refuse	can	you			simply property	vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
6	not listen	to-infinitive	you not said here			to cruel gossip	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to gossip=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:050-rumours-about-classmates-and-secrets.lesson:19.

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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×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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