Whistle-blowing: when to tell, sentence 0

Whistle-blowing means telling someone in charge about wrongdoing in a group you belong to, like a referee blowing a whistle to stop a foul.

Who acts: Whistle blowing, you, referee · What happens: mean, tell, belong, blow, stop · To what, where: someone, group, whistle, foul · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Whistle-blowing: when to tell» of the religion ethics 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 (Whistle blowing, you, referee), 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	Whistle	whistle	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 blowing	compound
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 blowing	punct
3	blowing	blowing	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 means	nsubj
4	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	telling	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 means	xcomp
6	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	5 telling	iobj
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 charge	case
8	charge	charge	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 someone	nmod
9	about	about	ADP	_	10 wrongdoing	case
10	wrongdoing	wrongdoing	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 charge	nmod
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 group	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 group	det
13	group	group	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 wrongdoing	nmod
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 belong	nsubj
15	belong	belong	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 group	acl:relcl
16	to	to	ADP	_	15 belong	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 blowing	punct
18	like	like	SCONJ	_	21 blowing	mark
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 referee	det
20	referee	referee	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 blowing	nsubj
21	blowing	blow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 telling	conj
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 whistle	det
23	whistle	whistle	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 blowing	obj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 stop	mark
25	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 blowing	advcl
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 foul	det
27	foul	foul	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 stop	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 means	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	mean	present	Whistle blowing			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	tell speech: assert not said to happen	gerund	Whistle blowing not said here		someone	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent someone=Recipient
3	belong	present	you	a group not said here		tree rules
4	blow	gerund	a referee	a whistle		vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent whistle=Patient
5	stop	to-infinitive	a referee not said here	a foul		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality foul=Eventuality

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:religion-ethics:045-whistle-blowing-when-to-tell.lesson:0.

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): R5-strong ×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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