--- title: Whistle-blowing means telling someone in charge about wrongdoing in… — Whistle-blowing: when to tell · tree and pragmatics description: Whistle-blowing means telling someone in charge about wrongdoing in a group you belong to, like a referee blowing a whistle to stop a foul. Who acts: Whistle blowing, you, referee. 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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 (Whistle blowing, you, referee), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:religion-ethics:045-whistle-blowing-when-to-tell.lesson:0 # text = Whistle-blowing means telling someone in charge about wrongdoing in a group you belong to, like a referee blowing a whistle to stop a foul. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = religion-ethics # lesson = 045-whistle-blowing-when-to-tell.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): R5-strong ×2 1 Whistle whistle NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 2 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 3 punct _ _ 3 blowing blowing NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 telling tell VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 4 xcomp _ _ 6 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 5 iobj _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 charge charge NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 9 about about ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 wrongdoing wrongdoing NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 11 in in ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 group group NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:nmod 14 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 belong belong VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 acl:relcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:acl:relcl 16 to to ADP IN _ 15 obl _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 18 like like SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 referee referee NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 21 blowing blow VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 conj _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 whistle whistle NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 24 to to PART TO _ 25 mark _ _ 25 stop stop VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 advcl _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 foul foul NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present | Whistle blowing | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* *not said to happen* | gerund | Whistle blowing *not said here* | | someone | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent someone=Recipient | | 3 | **belong** | present | you | a group *not said here* | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **blow** | gerund | a referee | a whistle | | | | | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent whistle=Patient | | 5 | **stop** | to-infinitive | a referee *not said here* | a foul | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality foul=Eventuality | 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:045-whistle-blowing-when-to-tell.lesson:0`. **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 ×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: [Cheating, rules and games, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/44-cheating-rules-and-games/17/) - next →: [Whistle-blowing: when to tell, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/45-whistle-blowing-when-to-tell/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/45-whistle-blowing-when-to-tell/)