--- title: Gossip that hurts is different from telling a trusted grown-up somet… — Rumours about classmates and what to do with a s… · tree and pragmatics description: Gossip that hurts is different from telling a trusted grown-up something worrying; if someone may be in danger, telling is the right thing, not tattling. Who acts: Gossip, someone, telling. 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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 (Gossip, someone, telling), 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:6 # text = Gossip that hurts is different from telling a trusted grown-up something worrying; if someone may be in danger, telling is the right thing, not tattling. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Gossip gossip NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 2 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 3 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:nsubj|HaikuPos=DET:DT:Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 3 hurts hurt VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 acl:relcl _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 5 different different ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 6 from from SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 7 telling tell VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 advcl _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 9 trusted trust VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 10 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=10:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 10 grown grown-up NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 iobj _ _ 11 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 12 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=10:punct 12 up up ADP RP _ 10 compound _ _ 13 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 7 obj _ _ 14 worrying worry VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 13 acl _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 16 if if SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 17 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 21 nsubj _ _ 18 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 19 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 21 cop _ _ 20 in in ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 danger danger NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 advcl _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 23 telling tell VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 27 csubj _ _ 24 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 cop _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 right right ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 29 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 30 advmod _ _ 30 tattling tattle VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 27 appos _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hurt** | present | Gossip | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **is** | present | Gossip | | | | | different *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund | Gossip *not said here* | something | trusted grown | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent grown-up=Recipient something=Topic | | 4 | **trust** | participle | | | | | | | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **worry** | gerund | | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 6 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | may | someone | | | danger | | | tree rules | | 7 | **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund | | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **is a** | present | telling | the right thing | | | | | tree rules | | 9 | **not** **tattle** | gerund | | | | | | | tree rules | 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:6`. **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, R8-pos-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. 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