Whistle-blowing: when to tell, sentence 5
Whistle-blowing means telling someone in charge about wrongdoing in a group you belong to.
Who acts: Whistle blowing, you · What happens: means, tell, belong · To what, where: someone, group · 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), 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 | means | 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 | case |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 means | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | means | present | Whistle blowing | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | 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 |
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:5.
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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