--- title: Sam's «friend» online says cruel things, then «only joking», and whe… — Blocking, muting and walking away · tree and pragmatics description: Sam's «friend» online says cruel things, then «only joking», and when Sam goes to block him: «if u block me ur a snake and everyone will know» (a snake is a traitor). Who acts: friend, Sam, u, snake. 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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 (friend, Sam, u, snake), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:481-blocking-muting-and-walking-away.lesson:8 # text = Sam's «friend» online says cruel things, then «only joking», and when Sam goes to block him: «if u block me ur a snake and everyone will know» (a snake is a traitor). # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 481-blocking-muting-and-walking-away.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): R6-punct-agree ×1 1 Sam Sam PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nmod:poss _ _ 2 's 's PART POS _ 1 case _ _ 3 « « PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ _ 4 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 5 » » PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=6:punct 6 online online ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 7 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 cruel cruel ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obj _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 11 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 14 advmod _ _ 12 « « PUNCT `` _ 14 punct _ _ 13 only only ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 14 joking joke VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 7 ccomp _ _ 15 » » PUNCT '' _ 14 punct _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 18 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 20 advmod _ _ 19 Sam Sam PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 20 goes go VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 21 to to PART TO _ 22 mark _ _ 22 block block VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 xcomp _ _ 23 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 obj _ _ 24 : : PUNCT : _ 14 punct _ _ 25 « « PUNCT `` _ 36 punct _ _ 26 if if SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ _ 27 u you PRON PRP Abbr=Yes|Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 28 block block VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 36 advcl _ _ 29 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 28 obj _ _ 30 ur ur ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 snake snake NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nsubj _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 34 everyone everyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 32 conj _ _ 35 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 36 aux _ _ 36 know know VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 conj _ _ 37 » » PUNCT '' _ 36 punct _ _ 38 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 43 punct _ _ 39 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 snake snake NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 nsubj _ _ 41 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 43 cop _ _ 42 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 43 traitor traitor NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 appos _ _ 44 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 43 punct _ _ 45 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Sam's friend | cruel things | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **joke** *speech: other* *in a quote* | gerund | | | | | then | | vn chit\_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **go** | present | Sam | | | | | | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **block** | to-infinitive | Sam *not said here* | Sam | | | | | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer he=Theme | | 5 | **block** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present | u | Dad | | | | | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer i=Theme | | 6 | **know** *in a quote* | future | a snake | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 7 | **is a** | present | a snake | a traitor | | | | | tree rules | 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:481-blocking-muting-and-walking-away.lesson:8`. **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): R6-punct-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/). - ← previous: [Blocking, muting and walking away, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/481-blocking-muting-and-walking-away/7/) - next →: [Blocking, muting and walking away, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/481-blocking-muting-and-walking-away/9/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/481-blocking-muting-and-walking-away/)