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title: A boy in Ohio told an online gamer his full name, school and age whe… — More greetings and making introductions · tree and pragmatics
description: A boy in Ohio told an online gamer his full name, school and age when the gamer introduced himself; the gamer, an adult, began messaging him at school times, and his parents had to report it. Who acts: boy, gamer, parents. A sentence of the lesson «More greetings and making introductions» of the eve
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# More greetings and making introductions, sentence 16

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A boy in Ohio told an online gamer his full name, school and age when the gamer introduced himself; the gamer, an adult, began messaging him at school times, and his parents had to report it.

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**Who acts:** boy, gamer, parents · **What happens:** tell, introduce, begin, message, have, report · **To what, where:** full name, online gamer, gamer, school · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «More greetings and making introductions» 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 (boy, gamer, parents), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:125-greetings-and-introductions.lesson:16
# text = A boy in Ohio told an online gamer his full name, school and age when the gamer introduced himself; the gamer, an adult, began messaging him at school times, and his parents had to report it.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 125-greetings-and-introductions.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 ×2
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Ohio	Ohio	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	online	online	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	gamer	gamer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	iobj	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
10	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:appos
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	age	age	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
16	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	19	advmod	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	gamer	gamer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	introduced	introduce	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
20	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	19	obj	_	_
21	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	gamer	gamer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	adult	adult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	appos	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
29	messaging	message	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	28	xcomp	_	_
30	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	obj	_	_
31	at	at	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl	_	_
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
36	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
37	parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	nsubj	_	_
38	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:parataxis
39	to	to	PART	TO	_	40	mark	_	_
40	report	report	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	38	xcomp	_	_
41	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	obj	_	_
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | a boy in Ohio | boy's full name and school and age | a online gamer |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent gamer=Recipient name=Topic |
| 2 | **introduce** | past | the gamer | gamer |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Patient |
| 3 | **begin** | past | the gamer |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **message** | gerund | the gamer *not said here* | gamer |  |  | time |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **have** | past | boy's parents |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **report** | to-infinitive | boy's parents *not said here* | school |  |  |  |  | vn prosecute-33.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 7 | **name** |  | boy |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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 ×2. **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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