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title: Blocking stops someone contacting you; reporting tells the game or a… — The friend in the game you never met, and the fa… · tree and pragmatics
description: Blocking stops someone contacting you; reporting tells the game or app so they can act. Who acts: people. 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 pragmatics of every clause.
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# The friend in the game you never met, and the fake friend, sentence 31

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Blocking stops someone contacting you; reporting tells the game or app so they can act.

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**Who acts:** people · **What happens:** block, stop, contact, report, tell, act · **To what, where:** someone, you, game · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (people), 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:31
# text = Blocking stops someone contacting you; reporting tells the game or app so they can act.
# 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
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	,	_	2	punct	_	_
7	reporting	report	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	nsubj	_	_
8	tells	tell	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=10:cc
12	app	app	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
13	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=16:mark|HaikuPos=SCONJ:RB:_
14	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	act	act	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | 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 or app |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent game=Recipient |
| 6 | **act** | can | people |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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:480-the-friend-in-the-game-you-never-met-and-the-fake-friend.lesson:31`.

**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): R1-cc-next ×1, R8-pos-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/).

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