Whistle-blowing: when to tell, sentence 10

If a friend has done damage, such as scratching a teacher's car, a good first step is to encourage them to own up.

Who acts: friend, damage, friends · What happens: do, scratch, be, encourage, own up · To what, where: damage, car, good first step, friends

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 (friend, damage, friends), 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 done	mark
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 friend	det
3	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 done	nsubj
4	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 done	aux
5	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	19 step	advcl
6	damage	damage	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 done	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 damage	punct
8	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=SCONJ	10 scratching	mark
9	as	as	ADP	_	8 such	fixed
10	scratching	scratch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 damage	acl
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 teacher	det
12	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 car	nmod:poss
13	's	's	PART	_	12 teacher	case
14	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 scratching	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 damage	punct
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 step	det
17	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 step	amod
18	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	19 step	amod
19	step	step	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 step	cop
21	to	to	PART	_	22 encourage	mark
22	encourage	encourage	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 step	xcomp
23	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 encourage	obj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 own	mark
25	own	own	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 encourage	xcomp
26	up	up	ADP	_	25 own	compound:prt
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 step	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do a condition, not said to happen	present · perfect	a friend	damage	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent damage=Eventuality
2	scratch	gerund	damage not said here	a teacher's car	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent car=Theme
3	is a	present		a good first step	tree rules
4	encourage	to-infinitive		friends = friend	vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP how S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
5	own up not said to happen	to-infinitive	friends = friend not said here		vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot

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:10.

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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