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title: People and bots online may pretend to be someone else; asking for ph… — Strangers, hooks and too-perfect messages · tree and pragmatics
description: People and bots online may pretend to be someone else; asking for photos is a big warning sign. Who acts: People, asking. 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 8

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People and bots online may pretend to be someone else; asking for photos is a big warning sign.

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**Who acts:** People, asking · **What happens:** pretend, be, ask · **To what, where:** someone, big warning sign

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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 (People, asking), 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:8
# text = People and bots online may pretend to be someone else; asking for photos is a big warning sign.
# 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): no change
1	People	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	bots	bot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
4	online	online	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
5	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	pretend	pretend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
8	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	cop	_	_
9	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	6	xcomp	_	_
10	else	else	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
12	asking	ask	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	csubj	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	photos	photo	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
17	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
18	warning	warning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	sign	sign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	parataxis	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pretend** | may | People and bots |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | to-infinitive | People and bots *not said here* | someone |  |  |  | else *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | for photos | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is a** | present | asking | a big warning sign |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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: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): no change. **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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