Whistle-blowing: when to tell, sentence 7
When classmates secretly bully a younger child, protecting the vulnerable child matters more than loyalty to the group.
Who acts: classmates, protecting · What happens: bully, protect, matter · To what, where: younger child, vulnerable child
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 (classmates, 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 bully | advmod |
| 2 | classmates | classmate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 bully | nsubj |
| 3 | secretly | secretly | ADV | _ | 4 bully | advmod |
| 4 | bully | bully | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 matters | advcl |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 child | det |
| 6 | younger | young | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 child | amod |
| 7 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bully | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 matters | punct |
| 9 | protecting | protect | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 matters | csubj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 child | det |
| 11 | vulnerable | vulnerable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 child | amod |
| 12 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 protecting | obj |
| 13 | matters | matter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 13 matters | advmod |
| 15 | than | than | ADP | _ | 16 loyalty | case |
| 16 | loyalty | loyalty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 more | obl |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 group | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 group | det |
| 19 | group | group | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 loyalty | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 matters | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bully | present | classmates | a younger child | secretly property | vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Beneficiary | |||
| 2 | protect | gerund | the vulnerable child | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Beneficiary | |||||
| 3 | matter | present | protecting | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |
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:7.
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. 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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