Whistle-blowing: when to tell, sentence 14
If someone is in danger or being hurt, you should go straight to a trusted adult rather than talking to the wrongdoer first.
Who acts: someone, you · What happens: be, hurt, go, trust, talk · To what, where: danger
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 (someone, 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 danger | mark |
| 2 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 5 danger | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 danger | cop |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 danger | case |
| 5 | danger | danger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 go | advcl |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 8 hurt | cc |
| 7 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 hurt | aux:pass |
| 8 | hurt | hurt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 danger | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 danger | punct |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 go | nsubj |
| 11 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 go | aux |
| 12 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 13 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 17 adult | advmod |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 adult | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 adult | det |
| 16 | trusted | trust | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 adult | amod |
| 17 | adult | adult | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 go | obl |
| 18 | rather | rather | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 20 talking | cc |
| 19 | than | than | ADP | _ | 18 rather | fixed |
| 20 | talking | talk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 go | advcl |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 wrongdoer | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 wrongdoer | det |
| 23 | wrongdoer | wrongdoer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 talking | obl |
| 24 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 20 talking | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 go | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a condition, not said to happen | present | someone | danger | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | hurt | gerund · passive | someone not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» | |||||
| 3 | go | should | you | to a trusted adult | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to adult=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | trust | participle | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | talk | gerund | you not said here | to the wrongdoer; first property | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to wrongdoer=Co-Agent |
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: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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