--- title: People who never say mean things about others are trusted more, beca… — Respect: how it is earned · tree and pragmatics description: People who never say mean things about others are trusted more, because they will not talk about you behind your back either. Who acts: People. 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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 (People), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:385-respect-how-it-is-earned.lesson:24 # text = People who never say mean things about others are trusted more, because they will not talk about you behind your back either. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 385-respect-how-it-is-earned.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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 People people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ _ 2 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 4 nsubj _ _ 3 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 4 advmod _ _ 4 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 acl:relcl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=1:acl:relcl|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 5 mean mean ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 7 about about ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 others other NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nmod _ _ 9 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 aux:pass _ _ 10 trusted trust VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 11 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 10 advmod _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 13 because because SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 14 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 15 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 16 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 17 advmod _ _ 17 talk talk VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 advcl _ _ 18 about about ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 17 obl _ _ 20 behind behind ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 back back NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 23 either either ADV RB PronType=Ind 17 advmod _ _ 24 . . PUNCT . _ 10 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** **say** *speech: assert* | present | People | mean things | | | | about others | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent thing=Topic | | 2 | **trust** | present · passive | | People | | | | | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 3 | **not** **talk** | future | people | | | your back | | about you; either *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about you=Topic | 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:everyday:385-respect-how-it-is-earned.lesson:24`. **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): R8-pos-agree ×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: [Respect: how it is earned, 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/385-respect-how-it-is-earned/23/) - next →: [Respect: how it is earned, 25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/385-respect-how-it-is-earned/25/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/385-respect-how-it-is-earned/)