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title: Some children call any telling "snitching" to stop people reporting… — Whistle-blowing: when to tell · tree and pragmatics
description: Some children call any telling "snitching" to stop people reporting harm. Who acts: children, telling, people. 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 pragmatics of every clause.
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# Whistle-blowing: when to tell, sentence 8

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Some children call any telling "snitching" to stop people reporting harm.

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**Who acts:** children, telling, people · **What happens:** call, snitch, stop, report · **To what, where:** telling, people, harm · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (children, telling, people), 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:8
# text = Some children call any telling "snitching" to stop people reporting harm.
# 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	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	call	call	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	5	det	_	_
5	telling	telling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	_
7	snitching	snitch	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	acl	_	_
8	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	stop	stop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
11	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
12	reporting	report	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	acl	_	_
13	harm	harm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **call** *speech: assert* | present | some children | any telling |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent telling=Recipient |
| 2 | **snitch** *speech: other* *in a quote* | gerund | any telling *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **stop** | to-infinitive | some children *not said here* | people |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality people=Eventuality |
| 4 | **report** | gerund | people *not said here* | harm |  |  |  |  | vn prosecute-33.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent harm=Patient |

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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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**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:8`.

**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/).

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