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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:adult-life:050-rumours-about-classmates-and-secrets.lesson:10 # text = If a friend is being gossiped about, be kind to her and tell a trusted adult rather than repeating the cruel words. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = adult-life # lesson = 050-rumours-about-classmates-and-secrets.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 If if SCONJ IN _ 6 mark _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj:pass _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux:pass _ _ 5 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 6 aux:pass _ _ 6 gossiped gossip VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 10 advcl _ _ 7 about about ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 9 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 10 cop _ _ 10 kind kind ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 11 to to ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 her her PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 obl _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 conj _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 trusted trust VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 17 amod _ _ 17 adult adult NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 18 rather rather ADV RB ExtPos=CCONJ 20 cc _ _ 19 than than ADP IN _ 18 fixed _ _ 20 repeating repeat VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 17 conj _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 cruel cruel ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obj _ _ 24 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: suggest - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: changed form=imp, act=suggest | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **gossip** *speech: other* *a condition, not said to happen* | present · passive | | a friend | | | | about *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **is** | imperative | you *not said here* | | friend | | | kind *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive | you *not said here* | | a trusted adult | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient | | 4 | **trust** | participle | | | | | | | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **repeat** | gerund | you *not said here* | the cruel words | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Eventuality | 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:050-rumours-about-classmates-and-secrets.lesson:10`. **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: [Rumours about classmates and what to d…, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/50-rumours-about-classmates-and-secrets/9/) - next →: [Rumours about classmates and what to d…, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/50-rumours-about-classmates-and-secrets/11/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/50-rumours-about-classmates-and-secrets/)