Rumours and gossip, sentence 15
Private messages were meant for one person, and spreading them betrays trust.
What happens: mean, spread, betray · To what, where: Private messages, people, trust
This is a sentence of the lesson «Rumours and gossip» of the everyday 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: 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 | Private | private | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 messages | amod |
| 2 | messages | message | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 meant | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 meant | aux:pass |
| 4 | meant | mean | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 person | case |
| 6 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 person | nummod |
| 7 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 meant | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 spreading | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 betrays | cc |
| 10 | spreading | spread | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 betrays | nsubj |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 spreading | obj |
| 12 | betrays | betray | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 meant | conj |
| 13 | trust | trust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 betrays | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 meant | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | past · passive | Private messages | for one person | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Theme for person=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | spread | gerund | people | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location they=Theme | |||||
| 3 | betray | present | trust | 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:everyday:202-rumours-and-gossip.lesson:15.
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. 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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