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title: Whistle-blowers can lose friends, and adults can lose their jobs, so… — Whistle-blowing: when to tell · tree and pragmatics
description: Whistle-blowers can lose friends, and adults can lose their jobs, so speaking up can be costly. Who acts: Whistle blowers, adults, speaking, friends. A sentence of the lesson «Whistle-blowing: when to tell» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragm
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# Whistle-blowing: when to tell, sentence 12

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Whistle-blowers can lose friends, and adults can lose their jobs, so speaking up can be costly.

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**Who acts:** Whistle blowers, adults, speaking, friends · **What happens:** lose, speak up, be, job · **To what, where:** friends, jobs

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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 (Whistle blowers, adults, speaking, friends), 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:12
# text = Whistle-blowers can lose friends, and adults can lose their jobs, so speaking up can be costly.
# 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): R3-conj-first ×1
1	Whistle	whistle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	_
3	blowers	blower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	lose	lose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	adults	adult	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
10	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	lose	lose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
12	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	jobs	job	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
15	so	so	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
16	speaking	speak	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	20	csubj	_	_
17	up	up	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	_
18	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	cop	_	_
20	costly	costly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=11:conj
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lose** | can | Whistle blowers | friends |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Eventuality |
| 2 | **lose** | can | adults | friends's jobs |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent job=Eventuality |
| 3 | **speak up** *speech: other* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** | can | speaking |  |  |  |  | costly *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **job** |  | friends *= friend* |  |  |  |  |  | nom job «act intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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.

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**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): R3-conj-first ×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.

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