Whistle-blowing: when to tell, sentence 2
Telling to protect someone is not the same as "snitching" to get someone into trouble; protecting the vulnerable matters more than staying quiet for the group.
Who acts: Telling, protecting · What happens: tell, protect, not be, snitch, get, matter · To what, where: someone, trouble, vulnerable · 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 (Telling, protecting), 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 | Telling | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 same | csubj |
| 2 | to | to | PART | _ | 3 protect | mark |
| 3 | protect | protect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Telling | xcomp |
| 4 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 3 protect | obj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 same | cop |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 same | advmod |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 same | det |
| 8 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 11 snitching | mark |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 snitching | punct |
| 11 | snitching | snitch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 same | advcl |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 snitching | punct |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 get | mark |
| 14 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 snitching | advcl |
| 15 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 14 get | obj |
| 16 | into | into | ADP | _ | 17 trouble | case |
| 17 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 get | obl |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 protecting | punct |
| 19 | protecting | protect | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 matters | csubj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 vulnerable | det |
| 21 | vulnerable | vulnerable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 protecting | obj |
| 22 | matters | matter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 same | parataxis |
| 23 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 22 matters | advmod |
| 24 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 25 staying | mark |
| 25 | staying | stay | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 matters | advcl |
| 26 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 staying | xcomp |
| 27 | for | for | ADP | _ | 29 group | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 group | det |
| 29 | group | group | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 staying | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 same | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | gerund | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 2 | protect not said to happen | to-infinitive | someone | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent someone=Beneficiary | |||||
| 3 | not is | present | Telling | same property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | snitch speech: other in a quote | gerund | Telling not said here | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | get | to-infinitive | Telling not said here | someone | trouble | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer someone=Stimulus | |||
| 6 | protect | gerund | the vulnerable | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vulnerable=Beneficiary | |||||
| 7 | matter | present | protecting | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 8 | stay | gerund | protecting not said here | for the group; quiet property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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, 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:2.
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 ×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.
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