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title: Sometimes there are clues, but often you can't tell by looking, so a… — Keep yourself private, and voices that lie · tree and pragmatics
description: Sometimes there are clues, but often you can't tell by looking, so ask who posted it first. Who acts: clues, you. A sentence of the lesson «Keep yourself private, and voices that lie» of the ai course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Keep yourself private, and voices that lie, sentence 6

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Sometimes there are clues, but often you can't tell by looking, so ask who posted it first.

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**Who acts:** clues, you · **What happens:** be, not tell, look, ask, post · **To what, where:** password · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Keep yourself private, and voices that lie» of the ai 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 (clues, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:ai:012-keep-yourself-private-and-voices-that-lie.lesson:6
# text = Sometimes there are clues, but often you can't tell by looking, so ask who posted it first.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = ai
# lesson = 012-keep-yourself-private-and-voices-that-lie.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	3	advmod	_	_
2	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	_
3	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	clues	clue	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
6	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
7	often	often	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
9	ca	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
11	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
12	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
13	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	so	so	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:cc|HaikuPos=CCONJ:CC:_
16	ask	ask	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=11:conj
17	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
18	posted	post	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	ccomp	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	18	advmod	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **does** | present | clues |  |  | there |  | sometimes *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **tell** *speech: assert* | can | you |  |  |  |  | often *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **look** | gerund | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 4 | **ask** *speech: ask* | infinitive | clues *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **post** | past |  | password |  |  |  | first *property* | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |

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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:ai:012-keep-yourself-private-and-voices-that-lie.lesson:6`.

**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): R3-conj-first ×1, 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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