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title: A girl in Brisbane gets nasty messages in a game chat; she does not… — Friendship troubles, being left out and bullying · tree and pragmatics
description: A girl in Brisbane gets nasty messages in a game chat; she does not answer, takes screenshots, shows her dad, and the next day the school and the game's moderators (the people who keep the chat safe) stop it. Who acts: girl, people, school. A sentence of the lesson «Friendship troubles, being left o
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# Friendship troubles, being left out and bullying, sentence 4

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A girl in Brisbane gets nasty messages in a game chat; she does not answer, takes screenshots, shows her dad, and the next day the school and the game's moderators (the people who keep the chat safe) stop it.

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**Who acts:** girl, people, school · **What happens:** get, not answer, take, show, keep, stop · **To what, where:** nasty messages, game chat, screenshots, dad, chat

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Friendship troubles, being left out and bullying» 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, people, school), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:098-friendship-being-left-out-and-bullying.lesson:4
# text = A girl in Brisbane gets nasty messages in a game chat; she does not answer, takes screenshots, shows her dad, and the next day the school and the game's moderators (the people who keep the chat safe) stop it.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 098-friendship-being-left-out-and-bullying.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, R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1
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	Brisbane	Brisbane	PROPN	NNP	_	2	nmod	_	_
5	gets	get	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	nasty	nasty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	messages	message	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	chat	chat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:nmod
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
13	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
14	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
16	answer	answer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	takes	take	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:parataxis
19	screenshots	screenshot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	shows	show	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
22	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	dad	dad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obl:unmarked	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	nsubj	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=30:cc
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod:poss	_	_
34	's	's	PART	POS	_	33	case	_	_
35	moderators	moderator	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	conj	_	_
36	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	38	punct	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	appos	_	_
39	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	40	nsubj	_	_
40	keep	keep	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	38	acl:relcl	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	chat	chat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obj	_	_
43	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	xcomp	_	_
44	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	38	punct	_	_
45	stop	stop	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:parataxis|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
46	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	45	obj	_	_
47	.	.	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 | **get** | present | a girl in Brisbane | nasty messages |  | a game chat |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer message=Stimulus |
| 2 | **not** **answer** *speech: assert* | present · do-support | girl |  |  |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **take** | present | girl *not said here* | screenshots |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent screenshot=Theme |
| 4 | **show** | present | girl *not said here* |  | girl's dad |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent dad=Recipient |
| 5 | **keep** | present | the people | the chat |  |  |  | safe *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chat=Theme |
| 6 | **stop** | present | the school and the game's moderators | chat |  |  | day |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality it=Eventuality |

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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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, 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.

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