--- title: A secret told to you is a gift; giving it away hurts the friend who… — How to handle gossip: is it true, is it kind, wo… · tree and pragmatics description: A secret told to you is a gift; giving it away hurts the friend who trusted you. Who acts: secret, giving, friend. 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 --- [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/19/) [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/) / 19 # How to handle gossip: is it true, is it kind, would I say it to their face, sentence 19 A secret told to you is a gift; giving it away hurts the friend who trusted you. **Who acts:** secret, giving, friend · **What happens:** tell, be, give away, hurt, trust · **To what, where:** secret, you, gift, friend · **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 (secret, giving, friend), 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:19 # text = A secret told to you is a gift; giving it away hurts the friend who trusted you. # 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 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 secret secret NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 3 told tell VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 acl _ _ 4 to to ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 3 obl _ _ 6 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 gift gift NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 parataxis _ _ 9 ; ; PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 10 giving give VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 13 csubj _ _ 11 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 obj _ _ 12 away away ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:compound:prt 13 hurts hurt VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 16 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 17 nsubj _ _ 17 trusted trust VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 acl:relcl _ _ 18 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 17 obj _ _ 19 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=13:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | participle | | a secret *not said here* | you | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent to you=Recipient | | 2 | **is a** | present | a secret | a gift | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **give away** | gerund | | secret | | | | away *property* | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 4 | **hurt** | present | giving | the friend | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer friend=Patient | | 5 | **trust** | past | the friend | you | | | | | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | 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:19`. **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…, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/49-how-to-handle-gossip/18/) - next →: [How to handle gossip: is it true, is i…, 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/49-how-to-handle-gossip/20/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/49-how-to-handle-gossip/)