--- title: Chains of "she said" twist the truth; ask the person yourself. — How to handle gossip: is it true, is it kind, wo… · tree and pragmatics description: Chains of "she said" twist the truth; ask the person yourself. Who acts: Hannah, Chains, person. 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 ever --- [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/15/) [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/) / 15 # How to handle gossip: is it true, is it kind, would I say it to their face, sentence 15 Chains of "she said" twist the truth; ask the person yourself. **Who acts:** Hannah, Chains, person · **What happens:** say, twist, ask · **To what, where:** Chains, truth, yourself · **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 (Hannah, Chains, person), 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:15 # text = Chains of "she said" twist the truth; ask the person yourself. # 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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Chains chain NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 2 of of ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 3 " " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=1:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 4 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 1 acl _ _ 6 " " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=7:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_ 7 twist twist VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 truth truth NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 ; ; PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 ask ask VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:conj 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 14 yourself yourself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 11 obl:unmarked _ _ 15 . . 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 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | Hannah | Chains *not said here* | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent chain=Topic | | 2 | **twist** | infinitive | Chains | the truth | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent truth=Theme | | 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | infinitive | the person | yourself | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:15`. **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 ×2, 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…, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/49-how-to-handle-gossip/14/) - next →: [How to handle gossip: is it true, is i…, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/49-how-to-handle-gossip/16/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/49-how-to-handle-gossip/)