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title: Never accuse someone because "everyone says"; accusations are for a… — How to handle gossip: is it true, is it kind, wo… · tree and pragmatics
description: Never accuse someone because "everyone says"; accusations are for a teacher to look into. Who acts: you, everyone, accusations. 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 
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# How to handle gossip: is it true, is it kind, would I say it to their face, sentence 18

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Never accuse someone because "everyone says"; accusations are for a teacher to look into.

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**Who acts:** you, everyone, accusations · **What happens:** not accuse, say, be, look · **To what, where:** someone · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (you, everyone, accusations), 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:18
# text = Never accuse someone because "everyone says"; accusations are for a teacher to look into.
# 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
1	Never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	2	advmod	_	_
2	accuse	accuse	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	2	obj	_	_
4	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=6:punct
6	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	7	nsubj	_	_
7	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
8	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=14:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
10	accusations	accusation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
11	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	teacher	teacher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	acl	_	_
17	into	into	ADP	IN	_	16	obl	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **accuse** | imperative | you *not said here* | someone |  |  |  |  | vn suspect-81 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent someone=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present | everyone |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | present | accusations |  |  |  |  | for a teacher | tree rules |
| 4 | **look** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |

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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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**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. **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.

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