How to handle gossip: is it true, is it kind, would I say it to their face, sentence 14

If you would not say it to their face, don't say it behind their back.

Who acts: you · What happens: not say · To what, where: family, face, back · 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), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	5 say	mark
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 say	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 say	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 say	advmod
5	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 say	advcl
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 say	obj
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 face	case
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 face	nmod:poss
9	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 say	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 say	punct
11	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	13 say	aux
12	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 say	advmod
13	say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 say	obj
15	behind	behind	ADP	_	17 back	case
16	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 back	nmod:poss
17	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 say	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 say	punct

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 a condition, not said to happen	would	you	family	classmates's face				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Topic to face=Recipient
2	not say speech: assert	imperative · do-support	you not said here	family		classmates's back			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=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, 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:14.

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.

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