--- title: "I'm just saying what I heard" and "I only told one person" are stil… — How to handle gossip: is it true, is it kind, wo… · tree and pragmatics description: "I'm just saying what I heard" and "I only told one person" are still spreading a rumour. Who acts: I, 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 prag --- [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/20/) [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/) / 20 # How to handle gossip: is it true, is it kind, would I say it to their face, sentence 20 "I'm just saying what I heard" and "I only told one person" are still spreading a rumour. **Who acts:** I, person · **What happens:** say, hear, tell, spread · **To what, where:** one person, rumour · **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 (I, 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:20 # text = "I'm just saying what I heard" and "I only told one person" are still spreading a rumour. # 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 " " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ _ 2 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 3 'm be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 4 just just ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 saying say VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 20 nsubj _ _ 6 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 8 obj _ _ 7 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 heard hear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 ccomp _ _ 9 " " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=20:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 11 " " PUNCT `` _ 14 punct _ _ 12 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 13 only only ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 14 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 15 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 16 nummod _ _ 16 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 iobj _ _ 17 " " PUNCT '' _ 14 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=16:punct 18 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 19 still still ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 20 spreading spread VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 0 root _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 rumour rumour NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 23 . . PUNCT . _ 20 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* | present · progressive | I | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **hear** *in a quote* | past | I | | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus | | 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | the person *= person* | | one person | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent person=Recipient | | 4 | **spread** | present · progressive | | a rumour | | | still | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location rumour=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:20`. **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. 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…, 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/49-how-to-handle-gossip/19/) - next →: [Rumours about classmates and what to d…, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/50-rumours-about-classmates-and-secrets/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/49-how-to-handle-gossip/)