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title: It is often hard to tell a person from a bot online; treat everyone… — Stop, think, check, ask · tree and pragmatics
description: It is often hard to tell a person from a bot online; treat everyone you don't know as a stranger. Who acts: you. 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 16

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It is often hard to tell a person from a bot online; treat everyone you don't know as a stranger.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** be, tell, treat, not know · **To what, where:** person, bot, everyone · **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 (you), 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:16
# text = It is often hard to tell a person from a bot online; treat everyone you don't know as a stranger.
# 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): no change
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	expl	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	often	often	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	csubj	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	bot	bot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
12	online	online	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	treat	treat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
15	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	14	obj	_	_
16	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
17	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
19	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	acl:relcl	_	_
20	as	as	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	stranger	stranger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: evaluate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | hard, often *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive |  |  | a person | a bot |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent person=Recipient |
| 3 | **treat** | infinitive |  | everyone |  |  |  | as a stranger | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent everyone=Theme as stranger=Attribute |
| 4 | **not** **know** | present · do-support | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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:16`.

**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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