How to handle gossip: is it true, is it kind, would I say it to their face, sentence 13

Before passing something on, ask: is it true, is it kind, is it needed?

Who acts: you, family · What happens: pass on, ask, be, need · To what, where: something, family · 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 (you, family), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Before	before	SCONJ	_	2 passing	mark
2	passing	pass	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 ask	advcl
3	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	2 passing	obj
4	on	on	ADV	_	2 passing	compound:prt
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 passing	punct
6	ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 true	punct
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 true	cop
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 true	nsubj
10	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 ask	ccomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 kind	punct
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 kind	cop
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 kind	nsubj
14	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 true	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 needed	punct
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 needed	aux:pass
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 needed	nsubj
18	needed	need	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 ask	ccomp
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 ask	punct

Pragmatics

form: command
act: suggest
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed form=imp, act=suggest

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	pass on	gerund	you not said here	something		vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Theme
2	ask speech: ask	imperative	you not said here			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	is	present	family		true property	tree rules
4	is	present	family		kind property	tree rules
5	need	present · passive		family		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: subject=Theme

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, 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:13.

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): R7-rel-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.

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