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title: Apps may ask for more permissions, like microphone and location, tha… — Stop, think, check, ask · tree and pragmatics
description: Apps may ask for more permissions, like microphone and location, than they need; a grown-up can help say no. Who acts: Apps, grown up. A sentence of the lesson «Stop, think, check, ask» of the ai course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Stop, think, check, ask, sentence 14

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Apps may ask for more permissions, like microphone and location, than they need; a grown-up can help say no.

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**Who acts:** Apps, grown up · **What happens:** ask, need, grow, help, say · **To what, where:** no. · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Stop, think, check, ask» 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, grown up), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:ai:014-stop-think-check-ask.lesson:14
# text = Apps may ask for more permissions, like microphone and location, than they need; a grown-up can help say no.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = ai
# lesson = 014-stop-think-check-ask.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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1
1	Apps	app	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	ask	ask	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	6	amod	_	_
6	permissions	permission	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	like	like	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	microphone	microphone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=9:cc
11	location	location	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
14	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	need	need	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
18	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	amod	_	_
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	_
20	up	up	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
21	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
23	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	xcomp	_	_
24	no.	no.	NOUN	NN	Abbr=Yes|Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
```

## 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 | **ask** *speech: ask* | may | Apps |  |  |  |  | for more permissions like microphone and location | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **need** | present | Apps *= app* |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 3 | **grow** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **help** | can | a grown up |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive | a grown up *not said here* | no. |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent no.=Topic |

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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:014-stop-think-check-ask.lesson:14`.

**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): R1-cc-next ×1, 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/).

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