--- title: Before passing something on, ask: is it true, is it kind, is it need… — How to handle gossip: is it true, is it kind, wo… · tree and pragmatics description: Before passing something on, ask: is it true, is it kind, is it needed? Who acts: you, family. 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 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/49-how-to-handle-gossip/13/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Adult life](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/) / [How to handle gossip: is it true, is i…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/49-how-to-handle-gossip/) / 13 # 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:adult-life:049-how-to-handle-gossip.lesson:13 # text = Before passing something on, ask: is it true, is it kind, is it needed? # source = school lesson (ours) # course = adult-life # lesson = 049-how-to-handle-gossip.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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Before before SCONJ IN _ 2 mark _ _ 2 passing pass VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 6 advcl _ _ 3 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 2 obj _ _ 4 on on ADV RP _ 2 compound:prt _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 6 ask ask VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 : : PUNCT : _ 10 punct _ _ 8 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 9 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 true true ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:xcomp 11 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 cop _ _ 13 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 kind kind ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 conj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 aux:pass _ _ 17 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 needed need VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 ccomp _ _ 19 ? ? PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: suggest - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed form=imp, act=suggest | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | 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](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: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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [How to handle gossip: is it true, is i…, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/49-how-to-handle-gossip/12/) - next →: [How to handle gossip: is it true, is i…, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/49-how-to-handle-gossip/14/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/49-how-to-handle-gossip/)