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title: Mute, block, report and tell a grown-up are the four tools against a… — Toxic players, swearing and «fishcakes» · tree and pragmatics
description: Mute, block, report and tell a grown-up are the four tools against a nasty player. Who acts: block. 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 pragmatics of every clause.
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# Toxic players, swearing and «fishcakes», sentence 26

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Mute, block, report and tell a grown-up are the four tools against a nasty player.

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**Who acts:** block · **What happens:** report, tell, grow, be · **To what, where:** grown up, four tools · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (block), 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:26
# text = Mute, block, report and tell a grown-up are the four tools against a nasty player.
# 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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Mute	mute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=1:punct
3	block	block	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	report	report	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:det
9	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	_
11	up	up	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:compound|HaikuPos=ADP:RP:_
12	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	tools	tool	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
16	against	against	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	nasty	nasty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	player	player	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	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** | infinitive | block and Mute *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive | block and Mute *not said here* | a grown up |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent up=Recipient |
| 3 | **grow** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **is a** | present | block and Mute | the four tools |  |  |  | against a nasty player | tree rules |

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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:26`.

**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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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