--- title: "It's not my story to tell" means keeping a friend's news for the fr… — How to handle gossip: is it true, is it kind, wo… · tree and pragmatics description: "It's not my story to tell" means keeping a friend's news for the friend to share. Who acts: family. 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 the pragmatics of --- [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/12/) [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/) / 12 # How to handle gossip: is it true, is it kind, would I say it to their face, sentence 12 "It's not my story to tell" means keeping a friend's news for the friend to share. **Who acts:** family · **What happens:** not be, tell, mean, keep, share · **To what, where:** story, news · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (family), 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:12 # text = "It's not my story to tell" means keeping a friend's news for the friend to share. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ _ 2 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 3 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 4 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 6 advmod _ _ 5 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:nsubj 7 to to PART TO _ 8 mark _ _ 8 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 acl _ _ 9 " " PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=8:punct 10 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 keeping keep VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 10 xcomp _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod:poss _ _ 14 's 's PART POS _ 13 case _ _ 15 news news NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 16 for for ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod _ _ 19 to to PART TO _ 20 mark _ _ 20 share share VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 advcl _ _ 21 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **is a** *in a quote* | present | family | my story | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **mean** | present | | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **keep** *not said to happen* | gerund | | a friend's news | | | | for the friend | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent news=Theme | | 5 | **share** | to-infinitive | | | | | | | 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:12`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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: [How to handle gossip: is it true, is i…, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/49-how-to-handle-gossip/10/) - next →: [How to handle gossip: is it true, is i…, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/49-how-to-handle-gossip/13/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/49-how-to-handle-gossip/)