--- title: Gossip is not only about famous people; most of it is about the peop… — How to handle gossip: is it true, is it kind, wo… · tree and pragmatics description: Gossip is not only about famous people; most of it is about the people right next to you, in the lunch queue, the group chat and the playground. Who acts: Gossip, most. A sentence of the lesson «How to handle gossip: is it true, is it kind, would I say it to their face» of the adult life course of M --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/49-how-to-handle-gossip/0/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Adult life](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/) / [How to handle gossip: is it true, is i…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/49-how-to-handle-gossip/) / 0 # How to handle gossip: is it true, is it kind, would I say it to their face, sentence 0 Gossip is not only about famous people; most of it is about the people right next to you, in the lunch queue, the group chat and the playground. **Who acts:** Gossip, most · **What happens:** not be, be · **To what, where:** lunch queue This is a sentence of the lesson «How to handle gossip: is it true, is it kind, would I say it to their face» of the adult life 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 (Gossip, most), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:adult-life:049-how-to-handle-gossip.lesson:0 # text = Gossip is not only about famous people; most of it is about the people right next to you, in the lunch queue, the group chat and the playground. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = adult-life # lesson = 049-how-to-handle-gossip.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R2-punct-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×3, R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Gossip gossip NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 3 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 7 advmod _ _ 4 only only ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 5 about about ADP IN _ 7 case _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 6 famous famous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 8 ; ; PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=7:punct 9 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 15 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=15:nsubj|HaikuPos=PRON:JJS:_ 10 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nmod _ _ 12 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 13 about about ADP IN _ 15 case _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:conj 16 right right ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 17 next next ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:advmod 18 to to ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 17 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:nmod 20 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 21 in in ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 lunch lunch NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 compound _ _ 24 queue queue NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:conj 25 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 27 group group NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 compound _ _ 28 chat chat NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 conj _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 playground playground NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=28:conj 32 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **is** | present | Gossip | | | | | about famous people | tree rules | | 2 | **is** | present | most of Gossip | | | the lunch queue and the group chat and the playground | | about the people; next *property* | 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:adult-life:049-how-to-handle-gossip.lesson:0`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×3, R7-rel-agree ×3, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Famous people are people: privacy, sca…, 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/48-famous-people-are-people/22/) - next →: [How to handle gossip: is it true, is i…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/49-how-to-handle-gossip/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/49-how-to-handle-gossip/)