--- title: Telling to protect someone is not the same as "snitching" to get som… — Whistle-blowing: when to tell · tree and pragmatics description: Telling to protect someone is not the same as "snitching" to get someone into trouble; protecting the vulnerable matters more than staying quiet for the group. Who acts: Telling, protecting. 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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 (Telling, protecting), 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:2 # text = Telling to protect someone is not the same as "snitching" to get someone into trouble; protecting the vulnerable matters more than staying quiet for the group. # 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 Telling tell VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 8 csubj _ _ 2 to to PART TO _ 3 mark _ _ 3 protect protect VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 xcomp _ _ 4 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 3 obj _ _ 5 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 6 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 8 advmod _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 9 as as SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 10 " " PUNCT `` _ 11 punct _ _ 11 snitching snitch VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 8 advcl _ _ 12 " " PUNCT '' _ 11 punct _ _ 13 to to PART TO _ 14 mark _ _ 14 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 advcl _ _ 15 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 14 obj _ _ 16 into into ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 trouble trouble NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:nmod 18 ; ; PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 19 protecting protect VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 22 csubj _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 vulnerable vulnerable ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 obj _ _ 22 matters matter VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ _ 23 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 22 advmod _ _ 24 than than SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 25 staying stay VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 22 advcl _ _ 26 quiet quiet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=25:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 27 for for ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 group group NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund | | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **protect** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | | | someone | | | | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent someone=Beneficiary | | 3 | **not** **is** | present | Telling | | | | | same *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **snitch** *speech: other* *in a quote* | gerund | Telling *not said here* | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **get** | to-infinitive | Telling *not said here* | someone | | trouble | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer someone=Stimulus | | 6 | **protect** | gerund | | the vulnerable | | | | | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vulnerable=Beneficiary | | 7 | **matter** | present | protecting | | | | | | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | | 8 | **stay** | gerund | protecting *not said here* | | | | | for the group; quiet *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:2`. **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/). - ← previous: [Whistle-blowing: when to tell, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/45-whistle-blowing-when-to-tell/1/) - next →: [Whistle-blowing: when to tell, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/45-whistle-blowing-when-to-tell/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/45-whistle-blowing-when-to-tell/)