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title: When classmates secretly bully a younger child, protecting the vulne… — Whistle-blowing: when to tell · tree and pragmatics
description: When classmates secretly bully a younger child, protecting the vulnerable child matters more than loyalty to the group. Who acts: classmates, protecting. 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 p
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# Whistle-blowing: when to tell, sentence 7

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When classmates secretly bully a younger child, protecting the vulnerable child matters more than loyalty to the group.

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**Who acts:** classmates, protecting · **What happens:** bully, protect, matter · **To what, where:** younger child, vulnerable child

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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 (classmates, 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:7
# text = When classmates secretly bully a younger child, protecting the vulnerable child matters more than loyalty to 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
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	classmates	classmate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	secretly	secretly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	bully	bully	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	younger	young	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	7	amod	_	_
7	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	protecting	protect	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	csubj	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	vulnerable	vulnerable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	matters	matter	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	13	advmod	_	_
15	than	than	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	loyalty	loyalty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:obl
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	group	group	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	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 | **bully** | present | classmates |  | a younger child |  |  | secretly *property* | vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **protect** | gerund |  |  | the vulnerable child |  |  |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Beneficiary |
| 3 | **matter** | present | protecting |  |  |  |  |  | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |

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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. **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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