The rumour that grows, sentence 19
If someone says "they said this about you", ask the person directly and kindly before getting upset.
Who acts: someone, ups, person · What happens: say, ask, get · To what, where: this · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «The rumour that grows» of the world 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 (someone, ups, person), 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 says | mark |
| 2 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 3 says | nsubj |
| 3 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 ask | advcl |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 said | nsubj |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 says | ccomp |
| 7 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 said | obj |
| 8 | about | about | ADP | _ | 9 you | case |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 said | obl |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 ask | punct |
| 12 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 person | det |
| 14 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 ask | obj |
| 15 | directly | directly | ADV | _ | 12 ask | advmod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 kindly | cc |
| 17 | kindly | kindly | ADV | _ | 15 directly | conj |
| 18 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 19 getting | mark |
| 19 | getting | get | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 ask | advcl |
| 20 | upset | upset | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 getting | xcomp |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 ask | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert a condition, not said to happen | present | someone | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | ups = up | this | about you | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent this=Topic | |||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | imperative | the person | directly property | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | get | gerund | the person not said here | upset property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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:world:167-the-rumour-that-grows.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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×3. 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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