Rumours about classmates and what to do with a secret, sentence 6
Gossip that hurts is different from telling a trusted grown-up something worrying; if someone may be in danger, telling is the right thing, not tattling.
Who acts: Gossip, someone, telling · What happens: hurt, be, tell, trust, worry, not tattle · To what, where: something, trusted grown, danger, right thing · 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 (Gossip, someone, telling), 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 | Gossip | gossip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 different | nsubj |
| 2 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 hurts | nsubj |
| 3 | hurts | hurt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Gossip | acl:relcl |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 different | cop |
| 5 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | from | from | SCONJ | _ | 7 telling | mark |
| 7 | telling | tell | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 different | advcl |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 something | det |
| 9 | trusted | trust | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 grown | amod |
| 10 | grown | grown-up | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 telling | iobj |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 up | punct |
| 12 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 grown | compound |
| 13 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 7 telling | obj |
| 14 | worrying | worry | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 something | acl |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 thing | punct |
| 16 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 21 danger | mark |
| 17 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 21 danger | nsubj |
| 18 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 danger | aux |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 danger | cop |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 danger | case |
| 21 | danger | danger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 thing | advcl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 telling | punct |
| 23 | telling | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 27 thing | csubj |
| 24 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 thing | cop |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 thing | det |
| 26 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 thing | amod |
| 27 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 different | conj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 tattling | punct |
| 29 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 30 tattling | advmod |
| 30 | tattling | tattle | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 27 thing | appos |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 different | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hurt | present | Gossip | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is | present | Gossip | different property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | gerund | Gossip not said here | something | trusted grown | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent grown-up=Recipient something=Topic | |||
| 4 | trust | participle | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | worry | gerund | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 6 | is a condition, not said to happen | may | someone | danger | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | tell speech: assert | gerund | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 8 | is a | present | telling | the right thing | tree rules | ||||
| 9 | not tattle | gerund | tree rules |
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: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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. 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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