---
title: Kieran tells his mum, and the police officer says he did exactly the… — The friend in the game you never met, and the fa… · tree and pragmatics
description: Kieran tells his mum, and the police officer says he did exactly the right thing. Who acts: Kieran, police officer, officer. A sentence of the lesson «The friend in the game you never met, and the fake friend» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/480-the-friend-in-the-game-you-never-met-and-the-fake-friend/16/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[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/) / [The friend in the game you never met,…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/480-the-friend-in-the-game-you-never-met-and-the-fake-friend/) / 16

# The friend in the game you never met, and the fake friend, sentence 16

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Kieran tells his mum, and the police officer says he did exactly the right thing.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** Kieran, police officer, officer · **What happens:** tell, say, do · **To what, where:** mum, right thing · **Speech:** someone speaks here

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of the lesson «The friend in the game you never met, and the fake friend» 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 (Kieran, police officer, officer), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:480-the-friend-in-the-game-you-never-met-and-the-fake-friend.lesson:16
# text = Kieran tells his mum, and the police officer says he did exactly the right thing.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 480-the-friend-in-the-game-you-never-met-and-the-fake-friend.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	Kieran	Kieran	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	tells	tell	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	police	police	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	officer	officer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:parataxis
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	ccomp	_	_
13	exactly	exactly	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .note -->
No stored speech act for this sentence.

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | Kieran |  | Kieran's mum |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent mum=Recipient |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the police officer |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **do** | past | officer | the right thing |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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:480-the-friend-in-the-game-you-never-met-and-the-fake-friend.lesson:16`.

**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/).

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [The friend in the game you never met,…, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/480-the-friend-in-the-game-you-never-met-and-the-fake-friend/14/)
- next →: [The friend in the game you never met,…, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/480-the-friend-in-the-game-you-never-met-and-the-fake-friend/18/)
- ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/480-the-friend-in-the-game-you-never-met-and-the-fake-friend/)

