Rumours and gossip, sentence 17
People trust someone who keeps secrets more than someone who spreads gossip.
Who acts: People · What happens: trust, keep, spread · To what, where: someone, secrets, gossip
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: who acts (People), 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 | People | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 trust | nsubj |
| 2 | trust | trust | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 2 trust | obj |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 keeps | nsubj |
| 5 | keeps | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 someone | acl:relcl |
| 6 | secrets | secret | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 keeps | obj |
| 7 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 5 keeps | advmod |
| 8 | than | than | ADP | _ | 9 someone | case |
| 9 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 7 more | obl |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 spreads | nsubj |
| 11 | spreads | spread | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 someone | acl:relcl |
| 12 | gossip | gossip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 spreads | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 trust | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | trust | present | People | someone | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent someone=Theme | ||||
| 2 | keep | present | secrets | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent secret=Theme | |||||
| 3 | spread | present | gossip | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location 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:everyday:202-rumours-and-gossip.lesson:17.
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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-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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