Respect: how it is earned, sentence 24

People who never say mean things about others are trusted more, because they will not talk about you behind your back either.

Who acts: People · What happens: not say, trust, not talk · To what, where: mean things, People, back · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Respect: how it is earned» 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	10 trusted	nsubj
2	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 say	nsubj
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 say	advmod
4	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 People	acl:relcl
5	mean	mean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 things	amod
6	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 say	obj
7	about	about	ADP	_	8 others	case
8	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 things	nmod
9	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 trusted	aux:pass
10	trusted	trust	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
11	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	10 trusted	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 talk	punct
13	because	because	SCONJ	_	17 talk	mark
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 talk	nsubj
15	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 talk	aux
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 talk	advmod
17	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 trusted	advcl
18	about	about	ADP	_	19 you	case
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 talk	obl
20	behind	behind	ADP	_	22 back	case
21	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 back	nmod:poss
22	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 talk	obl
23	either	either	ADV	PronType=Ind	17 talk	advmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 trusted	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not say speech: assert	present	People	mean things		about others	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent thing=Topic
2	trust	present · passive		People			vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	not talk	future	people		your back	about you; either property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about you=Topic

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:385-respect-how-it-is-earned.lesson:24.

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): 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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