Blocking, muting and walking away, sentence 8
Sam's «friend» online says cruel things, then «only joking», and when Sam goes to block him: «if u block me ur a snake and everyone will know» (a snake is a traitor).
Who acts: friend, Sam, u, snake · What happens: say, joke, go, block, know, be · To what, where: cruel things, Sam, Dad, traitor · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Blocking, muting and walking away» of the everyday 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 (friend, Sam, u, snake), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sam | Sam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 friend | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Sam | case |
| 3 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 4 friend | punct |
| 4 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 says | nsubj |
| 5 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 4 friend | punct |
| 6 | online | online | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 friend | amod |
| 7 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | cruel | cruel | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 things | amod |
| 9 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 says | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 joking | punct |
| 11 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 joking | advmod |
| 12 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 14 joking | punct |
| 13 | only | only | ADV | _ | 14 joking | advmod |
| 14 | joking | joke | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 says | ccomp |
| 15 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 14 joking | punct |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 goes | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 goes | cc |
| 18 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 20 goes | advmod |
| 19 | Sam | Sam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 goes | nsubj |
| 20 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 joking | conj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 block | mark |
| 22 | block | block | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 goes | xcomp |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 block | obj |
| 24 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 joking | punct |
| 25 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 36 know | punct |
| 26 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 28 block | mark |
| 27 | u | you | PRON | Abbr=Yes Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 28 block | nsubj |
| 28 | block | block | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 know | advcl |
| 29 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 block | obj |
| 30 | ur | ur | ADP | _ | 32 snake | case |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 snake | det |
| 32 | snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 know | nsubj |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 everyone | cc |
| 34 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 32 snake | conj |
| 35 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 36 know | aux |
| 36 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 joking | conj |
| 37 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 36 know | punct |
| 38 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 43 traitor | punct |
| 39 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 snake | det |
| 40 | snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 traitor | nsubj |
| 41 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 43 traitor | cop |
| 42 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 43 traitor | det |
| 43 | traitor | traitor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 snake | appos |
| 44 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 43 traitor | punct |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 says | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Sam's friend | cruel things | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | joke speech: other in a quote | gerund | then | vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | go | present | Sam | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | block | to-infinitive | Sam not said here | Sam | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer he=Theme | ||||
| 5 | block a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | u | Dad | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer i=Theme | ||||
| 6 | know in a quote | future | a snake | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 7 | is a | present | a snake | a traitor | tree rules |
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, 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:everyday:481-blocking-muting-and-walking-away.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): R6-punct-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.
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