--- title: He muted the man (the silence was wonderful), blocked him, and his d… — Toxic players, swearing and «fishcakes» · tree and pragmatics description: He muted the man (the silence was wonderful), blocked him, and his dad showed him the report button. Who acts: Kai, silence, dad. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kai, silence, 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:4 # text = He muted the man (the silence was wonderful), blocked him, and his dad showed him the report button. # 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 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 muted mute VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 9 punct _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 silence silence NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 8 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 9 wonderful wonderful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 parataxis _ _ 10 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 9 punct _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 blocked block VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 13 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 obj _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 16 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 dad dad NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 18 showed show VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 19 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 iobj _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 report report NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 compound _ _ 22 button button NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 23 . . PUNCT . _ 2 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** | past | Kai | the man | | | | | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent man=Patient | | 2 | **is** | past | the silence | | | | | wonderful *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **block** | past | Kai *not said here* | Kai | | | | | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer he=Theme | | 4 | **show** | past | Kai's dad | the report button | Kai | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient button=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:4`. **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/). - ← previous: [Toxic players, swearing and «fishcakes», 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/406-toxic-players-and-swearing/3/) - next →: [Toxic players, swearing and «fishcakes», 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/406-toxic-players-and-swearing/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/406-toxic-players-and-swearing/)