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title: Reporting harm to protect someone is different from telling just to… — Whistle-blowing: when to tell · tree and pragmatics
description: Reporting harm to protect someone is different from telling just to get someone into trouble. Who acts: Reporting. 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 9

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Reporting harm to protect someone is different from telling just to get someone into trouble.

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**Who acts:** Reporting · **What happens:** report, protect, be, tell, get · **To what, where:** harm, someone, trouble · **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 (Reporting), 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:9
# text = Reporting harm to protect someone is different from telling just to get someone into trouble.
# 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	Reporting	report	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	csubj	_	_
2	harm	harm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	protect	protect	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	advcl	_	_
5	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	4	obj	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
8	from	from	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
9	telling	tell	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
10	just	just	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	advcl	_	_
13	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	12	obj	_	_
14	into	into	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	.	.	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 | **report** | gerund |  | harm |  |  |  |  | vn prosecute-33.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent harm=Patient |
| 2 | **protect** | to-infinitive |  |  | someone |  |  |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent someone=Beneficiary |
| 3 | **is** | present | Reporting |  |  |  |  | different *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund | Reporting *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **get** | to-infinitive | Reporting *not said here* | someone |  | trouble |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer someone=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): 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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