--- title: If someone is in danger or being hurt, you should go straight to a t… — Whistle-blowing: when to tell · tree and pragmatics description: If someone is in danger or being hurt, you should go straight to a trusted adult rather than talking to the wrongdoer first. Who acts: someone, you. 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 pragma --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/45-whistle-blowing-when-to-tell/14/) [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/) / [Whistle-blowing: when to tell](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/45-whistle-blowing-when-to-tell/) / 14 # Whistle-blowing: when to tell, sentence 14 If someone is in danger or being hurt, you should go straight to a trusted adult rather than talking to the wrongdoer first. **Who acts:** someone, you · **What happens:** be, hurt, go, trust, talk · **To what, where:** danger 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 (someone, you), 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:14 # text = If someone is in danger or being hurt, you should go straight to a trusted adult rather than talking to the wrongdoer first. # 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): no change 1 If if SCONJ IN _ 5 mark _ _ 2 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 5 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 danger danger NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 advcl _ _ 6 or or CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 7 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 8 aux:pass _ _ 8 hurt hurt VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 conj _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 10 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 11 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 12 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 13 straight straight ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 14 to to ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 trusted trust VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 17 amod _ _ 17 adult adult NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 18 rather rather ADV RB ExtPos=CCONJ 20 cc _ _ 19 than than ADP IN _ 18 fixed _ _ 20 talking talk VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 12 advcl _ _ 21 to to ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 wrongdoer wrongdoer NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 24 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 20 advmod _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | someone | | | danger | | | tree rules | | 2 | **hurt** | gerund · passive | someone *not said here* | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» | | 3 | **go** | should | you | | | | | to a trusted adult | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to adult=Initial\_Location | | 4 | **trust** | participle | | | | | | | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **talk** | gerund | you *not said here* | | | | | to the wrongdoer; first *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to wrongdoer=Co-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:14`. **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): no change. **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, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/45-whistle-blowing-when-to-tell/13/) - next →: [Whistle-blowing: when to tell, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/45-whistle-blowing-when-to-tell/15/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/45-whistle-blowing-when-to-tell/)