Whistle-blowing: when to tell, sentence 16

Anonymous reporting means telling without giving your name; it can protect the reporter, but it can also be misused to spread false stories.

Who acts: Anonymous reporting, reporting, your · What happens: mean, tell, give, protect, misuse, spread · To what, where: name, reporter, reporting, false stories · 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 (Anonymous reporting, reporting, your), 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	Anonymous	anonymous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 reporting	amod
2	reporting	reporting	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 means	nsubj
3	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	telling	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 means	ccomp
5	without	without	SCONJ	_	6 giving	mark
6	giving	give	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 telling	advcl
7	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 name	nmod:poss
8	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 giving	obj
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 protect	punct
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 protect	nsubj
11	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 protect	aux
12	protect	protect	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 means	parataxis
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 reporter	det
14	reporter	reporter	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 protect	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 misused	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 misused	cc
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 misused	nsubj:pass
18	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 misused	aux
19	also	also	ADV	_	21 misused	advmod
20	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 misused	aux:pass
21	misused	misuse	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 protect	conj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 spread	mark
23	spread	spread	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 misused	advcl
24	false	false	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 stories	amod
25	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 spread	obj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 means	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	mean	present	Anonymous reporting			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	tell speech: assert	gerund				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	give	gerund		your name		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Theme
4	protect	can	reporting		the reporter	vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reporter=Beneficiary
5	misuse	can · passive		reporting		tree rules
6	spread	to-infinitive		false stories		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location story=Theme
7	name		your			nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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:16.

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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×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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