--- title: Telling tales is telling just to get someone into trouble; reporting… — Dilemmas about truth and friendship · tree and pragmatics description: Telling tales is telling just to get someone into trouble; reporting harm is telling to protect someone. Who acts: Telling, reporting harm. A sentence of the lesson «Dilemmas about truth and friendship» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatic --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/41-dilemmas-about-truth-and-friendship/13/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Religion ethics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/) / [Dilemmas about truth and friendship](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/41-dilemmas-about-truth-and-friendship/) / 13 # Dilemmas about truth and friendship, sentence 13 Telling tales is telling just to get someone into trouble; reporting harm is telling to protect someone. **Who acts:** Telling, reporting harm · **What happens:** tell, get, protect · **To what, where:** tales, someone, trouble · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Dilemmas about truth and friendship» 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 (Telling, reporting harm), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:religion-ethics:041-dilemmas-about-truth-and-friendship.lesson:13 # text = Telling tales is telling just to get someone into trouble; reporting harm is telling to protect someone. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = religion-ethics # lesson = 041-dilemmas-about-truth-and-friendship.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 1 Telling tell VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 4 csubj _ _ 2 tales tale NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 telling tell VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 5 just just ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 7 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 advcl _ _ 8 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 7 obj _ _ 9 into into ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 trouble trouble NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 11 ; ; PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 12 reporting reporting NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 13 harm harm NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 14 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 15 telling tell VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 16 to to PART TO _ 17 mark _ _ 17 protect protect VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 advcl _ _ 18 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 17 obj _ _ 19 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund | | tales | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tale=Recipient | | 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present · progressive | Telling | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **get** | to-infinitive | Telling *not said here* | someone | | trouble | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer someone=Stimulus | | 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present · progressive | reporting harm | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **protect** | to-infinitive | reporting harm *not said here* | | someone | | | | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent someone=Beneficiary | 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:religion-ethics:041-dilemmas-about-truth-and-friendship.lesson:13`. **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. **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: [Dilemmas about truth and friendship, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/41-dilemmas-about-truth-and-friendship/11/) - next →: [Dilemmas about truth and friendship, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/41-dilemmas-about-truth-and-friendship/14/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/41-dilemmas-about-truth-and-friendship/)