--- title: A classmate's family, like where a dad works or why parents are sad,… — How to handle gossip: is it true, is it kind, wo… · tree and pragmatics description: A classmate's family, like where a dad works or why parents are sad, is private; don't pass on what you heard. Who acts: dad, parents, family, you. 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 --- [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/9/) [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/) / 9 # How to handle gossip: is it true, is it kind, would I say it to their face, sentence 9 A classmate's family, like where a dad works or why parents are sad, is private; don't pass on what you heard. **Who acts:** dad, parents, family, you · **What happens:** work, be, not pass on, hear 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 (dad, parents, family, you), 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:9 # text = A classmate's family, like where a dad works or why parents are sad, is private; don't pass on what you heard. # 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:det 2 classmate classmate NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod:poss _ _ 3 's 's PART POS _ 2 case _ _ 4 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 6 like like SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 7 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 10 advmod _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 dad dad NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 10 works work VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 acl _ _ 11 or or CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=10:cc 12 why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 15 advmod _ _ 13 parents parent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nsubj _ _ 14 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 15 sad sad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 conj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 17 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 cop _ _ 18 private private ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 19 ; ; PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 20 do do AUX VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 21 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 22 advmod _ _ 22 pass pass VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 18 parataxis _ _ 23 on on ADP IN _ 22 compound:prt _ _ 24 what what PRON WP PronType=Rel 22 obj _ _ 25 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 heard hear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 acl:relcl _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 18 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **work** | present | a dad | | | | | | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is** | present | parents | | | | | sad *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **is** | present | a classmate's family | | | | | private *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **not** **pass on** | infinitive · do-support | | | | | | | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme | | 5 | **hear** | past | you | | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | 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:9`. **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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×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…, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/49-how-to-handle-gossip/8/) - next →: [How to handle gossip: is it true, is i…, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/49-how-to-handle-gossip/10/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/49-how-to-handle-gossip/)