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title: Explaining away someone's good marks as "copying" is usually jealous… — How to handle gossip: is it true, is it kind, wo… · tree and pragmatics
description: Explaining away someone's good marks as "copying" is usually jealousy dressed as news. Who acts: Explaining, someone. 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 with its dependency tree and t
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# How to handle gossip: is it true, is it kind, would I say it to their face, sentence 10

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Explaining away someone's good marks as "copying" is usually jealousy dressed as news.

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**Who acts:** Explaining, someone · **What happens:** explain away, be, dress, mark · **To what, where:** good marks, jealousy

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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 (Explaining, someone), 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:10
# text = Explaining away someone's good marks as "copying" is usually jealousy dressed as news.
# 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): no change
1	Explaining	explain	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	csubj	_	_
2	away	away	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	6	nmod:poss	_	_
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	marks	mark	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
7	as	as	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	_
9	copying	copying	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
10	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
12	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	jealousy	jealousy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
14	dressed	dress	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl	_	_
15	as	as	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	news	news	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: evaluate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **explain away** *speech: assert* | gerund |  | someone's good marks |  |  |  | as copying; away *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mark=Topic |
| 2 | **is a** | present | Explaining | jealousy |  |  |  | usually *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **dress** | participle |  | jealousy *not said here* |  |  |  | as news | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **mark** |  | someone |  |  |  |  |  | nom mark «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

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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.

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**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:10`.

**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): no change. **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/).

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