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title: Trusted adults are safe grown-ups who can help, such as parents, tea… — Whistle-blowing: when to tell · tree and pragmatics
description: Trusted adults are safe grown-ups who can help, such as parents, teachers, youth leaders and school staff. Who acts: Trusted adults, safe grown ups. 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
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# Whistle-blowing: when to tell, sentence 15

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Trusted adults are safe grown-ups who can help, such as parents, teachers, youth leaders and school staff.

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**Who acts:** Trusted adults, safe grown ups · **What happens:** trust, grow, be, help · **To what, where:** safe grown ups

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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 (Trusted adults, safe grown ups), 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:15
# text = Trusted adults are safe grown-ups who can help, such as parents, teachers, youth leaders and school staff.
# 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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Trusted	trust	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	amod	_	_
2	adults	adult	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
4	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
5	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	amod	_	_
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	_
7	ups	up	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
8	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
9	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	acl:relcl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	14	case	_	_
13	as	as	ADP	IN	_	12	fixed	_	_
14	parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	teachers	teacher	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	youth	youth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	leaders	leader	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	staff	staff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **trust** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **grow** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** | present | Trusted adults | safe grown ups and youth leaders and school staff |  |  |  | such parents and teachers | tree rules |
| 4 | **help** | can | safe grown ups and youth leaders and school staff |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=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): R5-strong ×1, 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/).

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