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title: Parental controls are there for good reasons; talk about them rather… — Strangers, hooks and too-perfect messages · tree and pragmatics
description: Parental controls are there for good reasons; talk about them rather than trying to trick them. Who acts: Parental controls. 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 18

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Parental controls are there for good reasons; talk about them rather than trying to trick them.

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**Who acts:** Parental controls · **What happens:** be, talk, try, trick · **To what, where:** controls

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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 (Parental controls), 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:18
# text = Parental controls are there for good reasons; talk about them rather than trying to trick 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Parental	parental	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	controls	control	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	0	root	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	reasons	reason	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
9	talk	talk	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
10	about	about	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obl	_	_
12	rather	rather	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	14	mark	_	_
13	than	than	ADP	IN	_	12	fixed	_	_
14	trying	try	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:advcl
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	trick	trick	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
17	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: pos
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Parental controls |  |  |  |  | for good reasons; there *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **talk** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | about controls *= control* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about they=Topic |
| 3 | **try** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **trick** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  | controls *= control* |  |  |  |  | vn trick-59.2 «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:18`.

**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 ×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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