--- title: Picture a few classmates secretly picking on a younger child behind… — Whistle-blowing: when to tell · tree and pragmatics description: Picture a few classmates secretly picking on a younger child behind the bike sheds: everyone knows, nobody says anything, and the little one has no one on their side until someone is brave enough to tell. Who acts: you, everyone, nobody, little one. 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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 (you, everyone, nobody, little one), 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:1 # text = Picture a few classmates secretly picking on a younger child behind the bike sheds: everyone knows, nobody says anything, and the little one has no one on their side until someone is brave enough to tell. # 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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Picture picture VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 classmates classmate NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obj _ _ 5 secretly secretly ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=1:advmod 6 picking pick VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 1 ccomp _ _ 7 on on ADP RP _ 6 compound:prt _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 younger young ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 10 amod _ _ 10 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:obl 11 behind behind ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 bike bike NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 14 sheds shed NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:nmod 15 : : PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 16 everyone everyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 17 nsubj _ _ 17 knows know VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 nobody nobody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 20 nsubj _ _ 20 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ _ 21 anything anything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 20 obj _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 27 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ _ 28 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 29 det _ _ 29 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 30 on on ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 32 nmod:poss _ _ 32 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nmod _ _ 33 until until SCONJ IN _ 36 mark _ _ 34 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 36 nsubj _ _ 35 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 36 cop _ _ 36 brave brave ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 advcl _ _ 37 enough enough ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 38 to to PART TO _ 39 mark _ _ 39 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 36 xcomp _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: request - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **picture** | imperative | you *not said here* | a few classmates | | | | | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent classmate=Theme clause=Attribute | | 2 | **pick on** | gerund | you *not said here* | a younger child | | the bike sheds | | secretly *property* | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient | | 3 | **know** | present | everyone | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | nobody | anything | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent anything=Topic | | 5 | **have** | present | the little one | no one | | sheds's side | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient | | 6 | **is** | present | someone | | | | | brave, enough *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **tell** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | someone *not said here* | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:1`. **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 ×3, 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: [Whistle-blowing: when to tell, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/45-whistle-blowing-when-to-tell/0/) - next →: [Whistle-blowing: when to tell, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/45-whistle-blowing-when-to-tell/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/45-whistle-blowing-when-to-tell/)