Whistle-blowing: when to tell, sentence 9
Reporting harm to protect someone is different from telling just to get someone into trouble.
Who acts: Reporting · What happens: report, protect, be, tell, get · To what, where: harm, someone, trouble · 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 (Reporting), 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 | Reporting | report | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 different | csubj |
| 2 | harm | harm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Reporting | obj |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 protect | mark |
| 4 | protect | protect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Reporting | advcl |
| 5 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 4 protect | obj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 different | cop |
| 7 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | from | from | SCONJ | _ | 9 telling | mark |
| 9 | telling | tell | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 different | advcl |
| 10 | just | just | ADV | _ | 12 get | advmod |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 get | mark |
| 12 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 telling | advcl |
| 13 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 12 get | obj |
| 14 | into | into | ADP | _ | 15 trouble | case |
| 15 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 get | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 different | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | report | gerund | harm | vn prosecute-33.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent harm=Patient | |||||
| 2 | protect | to-infinitive | someone | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent someone=Beneficiary | |||||
| 3 | is | present | Reporting | different property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | gerund | Reporting not said here | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | get | to-infinitive | Reporting not said here | someone | trouble | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer someone=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:9.
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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