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title: Anyone, person or app, who asks a child to keep chats secret from th… — Secrets, scams and always telling a grown-up · tree and pragmatics
description: Anyone, person or app, who asks a child to keep chats secret from their parents is showing a big warning sign. Who acts: Anyone. A sentence of the lesson «Secrets, scams and always telling a grown-up» of the ai course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# Secrets, scams and always telling a grown-up, sentence 14

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Anyone, person or app, who asks a child to keep chats secret from their parents is showing a big warning sign.

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**Who acts:** Anyone · **What happens:** ask, keep, show · **To what, where:** child, chats, big warning sign

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Secrets, scams and always telling a grown-up» 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 (Anyone), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:ai:016-secrets-scams-telling.lesson:14
# text = Anyone, person or app, who asks a child to keep chats secret from their parents is showing a big warning sign.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = ai
# lesson = 016-secrets-scams-telling.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 ×1
1	Anyone	anyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	19	nsubj	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
4	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	app	app	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
8	asks	ask	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	acl:relcl	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:acl
13	chats	chat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
14	secret	secret	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	xcomp	_	_
15	from	from	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	showing	show	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
21	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
22	warning	warning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	sign	sign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	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 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present |  |  | a child |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S\_INF»: agent=Agent child=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **keep** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  | chats |  |  |  | from chats's parents; secret *property* | vn forbid-64.4 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer chat=Beneficiary from parent=Eventuality |
| 3 | **show** | present · progressive | Anyone | a big warning sign |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent sign=Recipient |

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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:016-secrets-scams-telling.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): 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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