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title: A girl in Canada felt lonely at her new school and started talking o… — Frustration, loneliness, guilt and living with s… · tree and pragmatics
description: A girl in Canada felt lonely at her new school and started talking online to a stranger who said he was a kid; he was an adult who asked for photos, and she told her mum, who stopped it and reported him. Who acts: girl, stranger, boy, adult. A sentence of the lesson «Frustration, loneliness, guilt a
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# Frustration, loneliness, guilt and living with siblings, sentence 21

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A girl in Canada felt lonely at her new school and started talking online to a stranger who said he was a kid; he was an adult who asked for photos, and she told her mum, who stopped it and reported him.

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**Who acts:** girl, stranger, boy, adult, mum · **What happens:** feel, start, talk, say, be, ask · **To what, where:** new school, kid, adult, mum, stranger, boy · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Frustration, loneliness, guilt and living with siblings» 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 (girl, stranger, boy, adult), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:094-frustration-loneliness-and-siblings.lesson:21
# text = A girl in Canada felt lonely at her new school and started talking online to a stranger who said he was a kid; he was an adult who asked for photos, and she told her mum, who stopped it and reported him.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 094-frustration-loneliness-and-siblings.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×3
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Canada	Canada	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	lonely	lonely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	started	start	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
13	talking	talk	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	xcomp	_	_
14	online	online	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:advmod
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	stranger	stranger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
18	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
19	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	kid	kid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	ccomp	_	_
24	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=23:punct
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
26	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
27	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	adult	adult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
29	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	30	nsubj	_	_
30	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	acl:relcl	_	_
31	for	for	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	photos	photo	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obl	_	_
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
35	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
36	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
37	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
38	mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	iobj	_	_
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
40	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	41	nsubj	_	_
41	stopped	stop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	acl:relcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=36:parataxis
42	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	obj	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
44	reported	report	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	41	conj	_	_
45	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	44	obj	_	_
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **feel** | past | a girl in Canada |  |  | Canada's new school |  | lonely *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **start** | past | a girl in Canada *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **talk** | gerund | a girl in Canada *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to a stranger; online *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to stranger=Co-Agent |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | a stranger |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is a** | past | boy | a kid and a adult |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **is a** | past | boy | a adult |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | a adult |  |  |  |  | for photos | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | adult |  | adult's mum |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent mum=Recipient |
| 9 | **stop** | past | adult's mum | stranger |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector it=Eventuality |
| 10 | **report** | past | adult's mum *not said here* | boy |  |  |  |  | vn prosecute-33.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |

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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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**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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×3. **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.

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