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title: Many grown-ups meet partners through dating apps, which are for adul… — Dates, engagements and weddings · tree and pragmatics
description: Many grown-ups meet partners through dating apps, which are for adults only; children should never meet anyone they only know from the internet. Who acts: Many grown ups, dating apps, children. A sentence of the lesson «Dates, engagements and weddings» of the adult life course of Mova's primary scho
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# Dates, engagements and weddings, sentence 8

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Many grown-ups meet partners through dating apps, which are for adults only; children should never meet anyone they only know from the internet.

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**Who acts:** Many grown ups, dating apps, children · **What happens:** grow, meet, be, not meet, know · **To what, where:** partners, dating apps, anyone, internet

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Dates, engagements and weddings» of the adult life 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 (Many grown ups, dating apps, children), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:adult-life:013-dates-engagements-and-weddings.lesson:8
# text = Many grown-ups meet partners through dating apps, which are for adults only; children should never meet anyone they only know from the internet.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = adult-life
# lesson = 013-dates-engagements-and-weddings.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 ×2
1	Many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
2	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	_
4	ups	up	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	meet	meet	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	partners	partner	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
7	through	through	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	dating	dating	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	apps	app	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
12	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	adults	adult	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	acl:relcl	_	_
15	only	only	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
18	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
20	meet	meet	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj
21	anyone	anyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	20	obj	_	_
22	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	only	only	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	acl:relcl	_	_
25	from	from	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	internet	internet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **meet** | present | Many grown ups | partners |  | dating apps |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent partner=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **is** | present | dating apps |  |  |  |  | for adults | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **meet** | should | children | anyone |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anyone=Co-Agent |
| 5 | **know** | present | children *= child* |  |  | the internet |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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:adult-life:013-dates-engagements-and-weddings.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): R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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