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title: Some apps use pretend feelings, like a "sad" AI friend, to keep you… — Strangers, hooks and too-perfect messages · tree and pragmatics
description: Some apps use pretend feelings, like a "sad" AI friend, to keep you using them. Who acts: apps, you. 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 clause.
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# Strangers, hooks and too-perfect messages, sentence 10

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Some apps use pretend feelings, like a "sad" AI friend, to keep you using them.

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**Who acts:** apps, you · **What happens:** use, keep · **To what, where:** pretend feelings, you, feelings

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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 (apps, you), 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:10
# text = Some apps use pretend feelings, like a "sad" AI friend, to keep you using them.
# 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 ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	apps	app	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	use	use	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	pretend	pretend	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	feelings	feeling	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
7	like	like	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
9	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	_
10	sad	sad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
11	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
12	AI	ai	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=13:compound|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing
13	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:acl
17	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	using	use	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	xcomp	_	_
19	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **use** | present | some apps | pretend feelings |  |  |  | like a sad AI friend | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feeling=Patient |
| 2 | **keep** | to-infinitive | some apps *not said here* | you |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **use** | gerund | you *not said here* | feelings *= feeling* |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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**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:10`.

**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 ×2, R8-pos-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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