--- title: Muting someone means you stop hearing them; it does not tell them an… — Toxic players, swearing and «fishcakes» · tree and pragmatics description: Muting someone means you stop hearing them; it does not tell them anything. Who acts: Muting, you, 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/406-toxic-players-and-swearing/27/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Toxic players, swearing and «fishcakes»](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/406-toxic-players-and-swearing/) / 27 # Toxic players, swearing and «fishcakes», sentence 27 Muting someone means you stop hearing them; it does not tell them anything. **Who acts:** Muting, you, block · **What happens:** mute, mean, stop, hear, not tell · **To what, where:** someone, Players, anything · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Muting, you, 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:27 # text = Muting someone means you stop hearing them; it does not tell them anything. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Muting mute VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 3 csubj _ _ 2 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 1 obj _ _ 3 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 stop stop VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 ccomp _ _ 6 hearing hear VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 5 xcomp _ _ 7 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 obj _ _ 8 ; ; PUNCT : _ 12 punct _ _ 9 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 10 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 11 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 12 advmod _ _ 12 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 13 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 iobj _ _ 14 anything anything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 12 obj _ _ 15 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mute** | gerund | | someone | | | | | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent someone=Patient | | 2 | **mean** | present | Muting | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **stop** | present | you | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | | 4 | **hear** | gerund | you *not said here* | Players *= player* | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus | | 5 | **not** **tell** *speech: assert* | present · do-support | block | anything | Players *= player* | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient anything=Topic | 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](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:27`. **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): 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/). - ← previous: [Toxic players, swearing and «fishcakes», 26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/406-toxic-players-and-swearing/26/) - next →: [Toxic players, swearing and «fishcakes», 28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/406-toxic-players-and-swearing/28/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/406-toxic-players-and-swearing/)