Whistle-blowing: when to tell, sentence 8
Some children call any telling "snitching" to stop people reporting harm.
Who acts: children, telling, people · What happens: call, snitch, stop, report · To what, where: telling, people, harm · 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 (children, telling, people), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 children | det |
| 2 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 call | nsubj |
| 3 | call | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 telling | det |
| 5 | telling | telling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 call | obj |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 snitching | punct |
| 7 | snitching | snitch | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 telling | acl |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 snitching | punct |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 stop | mark |
| 10 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 call | advcl |
| 11 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 stop | obj |
| 12 | reporting | report | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 people | acl |
| 13 | harm | harm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 reporting | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 call | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call speech: assert | present | some children | any telling | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent telling=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | snitch speech: other in a quote | gerund | any telling not said here | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | stop | to-infinitive | some children not said here | people | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality people=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | report | gerund | people not said here | harm | vn prosecute-33.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent harm=Patient |
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:8.
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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