---
title: A "new friend" who seems lovely and asks for photos is showing a big… — Strangers, hooks and too-perfect messages · tree and pragmatics
description: A "new friend" who seems lovely and asks for photos is showing a big warning sign, whoever or whatever is typing. Who acts: new friend. A sentence of the lesson «Strangers, hooks and too-perfect messages» of the ai course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every 
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/13-strangers-hooks-and-too-perfect-messages/1/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [AI](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/) / [Strangers, hooks and too-perfect messa…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/13-strangers-hooks-and-too-perfect-messages/) / 1

# Strangers, hooks and too-perfect messages, sentence 1

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
A "new friend" who seems lovely and asks for photos is showing a big warning sign, whoever or whatever is typing.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** new friend · **What happens:** seem, ask, show, type · **To what, where:** big warning sign

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of the lesson «Strangers, hooks and too-perfect messages» 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 (new friend), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:ai:013-strangers-hooks-and-too-perfect-messages.lesson:1
# text = A "new friend" who seems lovely and asks for photos is showing a big warning sign, whoever or whatever is typing.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = ai
# lesson = 013-strangers-hooks-and-too-perfect-messages.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): R5-strong ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	_
3	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
6	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
7	seems	seem	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
8	lovely	lovely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	xcomp	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	asks	ask	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	photos	photo	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	showing	show	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
16	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
17	warning	warning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	sign	sign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	whoever	whoever	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	18	nmod	_	_
21	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	whatever	whatever	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	20	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:nsubj
23	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	typing	type	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	conj	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- sa -->
- form: statement
- act: evaluate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: changed act=evaluate, polarity=neg

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seem** | present | a new friend |  |  |  |  | lovely *property* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | a new friend *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for photos | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **show** | present · progressive | a new friend | a big warning sign  whoever |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent sign=Recipient |
| 4 | **type** | present · progressive | a new friend *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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:013-strangers-hooks-and-too-perfect-messages.lesson:1`.

**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): R5-strong ×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/).

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [Strangers, hooks and too-perfect messa…, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/13-strangers-hooks-and-too-perfect-messages/0/)
- next →: [Strangers, hooks and too-perfect messa…, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/13-strangers-hooks-and-too-perfect-messages/2/)
- ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/13-strangers-hooks-and-too-perfect-messages/)

