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title: Then he remembered his dad's four words: mute, block, report, tell. — Toxic players, swearing and «fishcakes» · tree and pragmatics
description: Then he remembered his dad's four words: mute, block, report, tell. Who acts: Kai, dad. 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 3

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Then he remembered his dad's four words: mute, block, report, tell.

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**Who acts:** Kai, dad · **What happens:** remember, tell, word · **To what, where:** four words · **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 (Kai, dad), 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:3
# text = Then he remembered his dad's four words: mute, block, report, tell.
# 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): no change
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	remembered	remember	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	dad	dad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	_
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
10	mute	mute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	block	block	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	report	report	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **remember** | past | Kai | Kai's dad's four words |  |  | then |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent word=Theme |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive | Kai *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **word** |  | Kai's dad |  |  |  |  |  | nom word «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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**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:3`.

**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): no change. **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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