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title: tattler — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «tattler» in the school dictionary: A tattler is a person who tells other people's secrets or spreads gossip, often to get into trouble. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# tattler

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**Who acts:** tattler, person, you · **What happens:** be, tell, spread, get, do, not be · **To what, where:** person, secrets, gossip, trouble, tattler, everything · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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«tattler» in the school dictionary: its meaning for a pupil and its 2 examples, every sentence parsed by Mova itself — its syntax tree, a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies, and its pragmatics clause by clause. The word in the dictionary, with its sense in the lessons: [tattler in the school dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/tattler.md).

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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A tattler is a person who tells other people's secrets or spreads gossip, often to get into trouble.

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```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:tattler:m1:1
# text = A tattler is a person who tells other people's secrets or spreads gossip, often to get into trouble.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	tattler	tattler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
7	tells	tell	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
8	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	's	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	secrets	secret	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
12	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	spreads	spread	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
14	gossip	gossip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	often	often	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	get	get	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
19	into	into	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | a tattler | a person |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | a person | other people's secrets |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent secret=Recipient |
| 3 | **spread** | present | a person *not said here* | gossip |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location gossip=Theme |
| 4 | **get** | to-infinitive | a person *not said here* |  |  | trouble |  | often *property* | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into trouble=Destination |

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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.

## Example 1 {#x1}

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Don't be a tattler and tell the teacher everything.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:tattler:x1:1
# text = Don't be a tattler and tell the teacher everything.
1	Do	do	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	tattler	tattler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	tell	tell	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	teacher	teacher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **not** **is a** | infinitive |  | a tattler |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive | you *not said here* | everything |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent everything=Recipient |

## Example 2 {#x2}

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The tattler spread the story around the village.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:tattler:x2:1
# text = The tattler spread the story around the village.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	tattler	tattler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	spread	spread	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	around	around	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spread** | past | the tattler | the story |  | the village |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent story=Theme around village=Destination |

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**Text:** the school dictionary of Mova's schools (`world/data/dictionary-schools/`), written for Mova. **Trees:** Mova's own parse — the `en` model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), each meaning and example read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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