--- title: Blocking stops someone contacting you, and reporting tells the game… — Strangers who want to chat privately · tree and pragmatics description: Blocking stops someone contacting you, and reporting tells the game company. A sentence of the lesson «Strangers who want to chat privately» 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/410-strangers-who-want-to-chat-privately/34/) [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/) / [Strangers who want to chat privately](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/410-strangers-who-want-to-chat-privately/) / 34 # Strangers who want to chat privately, sentence 34 Blocking stops someone contacting you, and reporting tells the game company. **What happens:** block, stop, contact, report, tell · **To what, where:** someone, you, game company · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Strangers who want to chat privately» 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: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:410-strangers-who-want-to-chat-privately.lesson:34 # text = Blocking stops someone contacting you, and reporting tells the game company. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 410-strangers-who-want-to-chat-privately.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 Blocking block VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 2 nsubj _ _ 2 stops stop VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 2 obj _ _ 4 contacting contact VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 3 acl _ _ 5 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 4 obj _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 8 reporting report VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 9 nsubj _ _ 9 tells tell VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 game game NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 12 company company NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 13 . . 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 | **block** | gerund | | | | | | | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Causer | | 2 | **stop** | present | | someone | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality someone=Eventuality | | 3 | **contact** | gerund | | you | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **report** | gerund | | | | | | | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | | the game company | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent company=Recipient | 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:410-strangers-who-want-to-chat-privately.lesson:34`. **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: [Strangers who want to chat privately, 33](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/410-strangers-who-want-to-chat-privately/33/) - next →: [Strangers who want to chat privately, 35](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/410-strangers-who-want-to-chat-privately/35/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/410-strangers-who-want-to-chat-privately/)