--- title: Telling a trusted adult about bullying or danger is always the right… — Getting help is not telling tales · tree and pragmatics description: Telling a trusted adult about bullying or danger is always the right thing, even if others call it grassing or snitching. Who acts: Telling, others. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Telling, others), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:369-getting-help-is-not-telling-tales.lesson:21 # text = Telling a trusted adult about bullying or danger is always the right thing, even if others call it grassing or snitching. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 369-getting-help-is-not-telling-tales.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Telling tell VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 13 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:nsubj 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 trusted trusted ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 adult adult NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 5 about about ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 bullying bully NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 7 or or CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 8 danger danger NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 conj _ _ 9 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 10 always always ADV RB PronType=Tot 13 advmod _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 right right ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 15 even even ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 16 if if SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 17 others other NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nsubj _ _ 18 call call VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 advcl _ _ 19 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 obj _ _ 20 grassing grass NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 xcomp _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=18:xcomp|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 21 or or CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 snitching snitch NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=20:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 23 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: pos - teacher: changed act=assert, polarity=pos | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund | | | a trusted adult | | | about bullying and danger | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient about bully=Topic | | 2 | **is a** | present | Telling | the right thing | | | | always *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **call** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | others | adult | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient | 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:everyday:369-getting-help-is-not-telling-tales.lesson:21`. **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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Getting help is not telling tales, 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/369-getting-help-is-not-telling-tales/20/) - next →: [Getting help is not telling tales, 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/369-getting-help-is-not-telling-tales/22/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/369-getting-help-is-not-telling-tales/)