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title: And when Zara saw a player write racist things in chat, she reported… — Toxic players, swearing and «fishcakes» · tree and pragmatics
description: And when Zara saw a player write racist things in chat, she reported him, though she was nervous it would not matter. Who acts: Zara, player, it. A sentence of the lesson «Toxic players, swearing and «fishcakes»» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragma
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# Toxic players, swearing and «fishcakes», sentence 18

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And when Zara saw a player write racist things in chat, she reported him, though she was nervous it would not matter.

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**Who acts:** Zara, player, it · **What happens:** see, write, report, be, not matter · **To what, where:** player, racist things, chat, Noah

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Toxic players, swearing and «fishcakes»» 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 (Zara, player, it), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:406-toxic-players-and-swearing.lesson:18
# text = And when Zara saw a player write racist things in chat, she reported him, though she was nervous it would not matter.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 406-toxic-players-and-swearing.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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
3	Zara	Zara	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	player	player	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	write	write	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
8	racist	racist	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	chat	chat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	reported	report	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:conj
15	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
18	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
20	nervous	nervous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:conj
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
22	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	24	advmod	_	_
24	matter	matter	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	parataxis	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **see** | past | Zara | a player |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **write** | infinitive | a player *not said here* | racist things |  | chat |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent thing=Theme in chat=Destination |
| 3 | **report** | past | Zara | Noah |  |  |  |  | vn prosecute-33.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |
| 4 | **is** | past | Zara |  |  |  |  | nervous *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **not** **matter** | would | it |  |  |  |  |  | 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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**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:everyday:406-toxic-players-and-swearing.lesson:18`.

**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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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