--- title: It's not my story to tell." She hangs up and winks at you: "Best sen… — How to handle gossip: is it true, is it kind, wo… · tree and pragmatics description: It's not my story to tell." She hangs up and winks at you: "Best sentence I know, that one." Who acts: bottle, Karen, I. 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She hangs up and winks at you: "Best sentence I know, that one." **Who acts:** bottle, Karen, I · **What happens:** not be, tell, hang up, wink, know · **To what, where:** story, Best sentence · **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 (bottle, Karen, I), 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:5 # text = It's not my story to tell." She hangs up and winks at you: "Best sentence I know, that one." # 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): no change 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 2 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 3 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 5 advmod _ _ 4 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 7 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 acl _ _ 8 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ 9 " " PUNCT " _ 11 punct _ _ 10 She she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 hangs hang VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 12 up up ADP RP _ 11 compound:prt _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 winks wink VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 15 at at ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 14 obl _ _ 17 : : PUNCT : _ 20 punct _ _ 18 " " PUNCT `` _ 20 punct _ _ 19 Best good ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 20 amod _ _ 20 sentence sentence NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 appos _ _ 21 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 know know VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 acl:relcl _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 25 det _ _ 25 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 appos _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 25 punct _ _ 27 " " PUNCT '' _ 25 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **is a** | present | bottle | my story | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **hang up** *in a quote* | present | Karen | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **wink** *in a quote* | present | Karen *not said here* | | | | | at you | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **know** | present | I | Best sentence *not said here* | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer sentence=Stimulus | 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:5`. **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): no change. **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…, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/49-how-to-handle-gossip/4/) - next →: [How to handle gossip: is it true, is i…, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/49-how-to-handle-gossip/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/49-how-to-handle-gossip/)