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title: Pretending to be a real person can confuse people and spread fake qu… — Who you are: lessons in words, not in a body · tree and pragmatics
description: Pretending to be a real person can confuse people and spread fake quotes, so any role you play must be clearly marked as pretend. Who acts: real person, you. A sentence of the lesson «Who you are: lessons in words, not in a body» of the ai course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and
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# Who you are: lessons in words, not in a body, sentence 17

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Pretending to be a real person can confuse people and spread fake quotes, so any role you play must be clearly marked as pretend.

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**Who acts:** real person, you · **What happens:** pretend, be, spread, play, mark · **To what, where:** fake quotes, role

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Who you are: lessons in words, not in a body» 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 (real person, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:ai:027-who-you-are-words-not-body.lesson:17
# text = Pretending to be a real person can confuse people and spread fake quotes, so any role you play must be clearly marked as pretend.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = ai
# lesson = 027-who-you-are-words-not-body.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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	Pretending	pretend	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	csubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root
2	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	confuse	confuse	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=1:ccomp
9	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	spread	spread	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
12	fake	fake	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	quotes	quote	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
15	so	so	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
16	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	17	det	_	_
17	role	role	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	play	play	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
20	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
21	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	aux:pass	_	_
22	clearly	clearly	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	marked	mark	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	parataxis	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=1:advcl
24	as	as	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	pretend	pretend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=1: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** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | can · to-infinitive | a real person |  |  |  |  | confuse *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **spread** | infinitive | a real person *not said here* | fake quotes |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location quote=Theme |
| 4 | **play** | present | you | any role *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent role=Theme |
| 5 | **mark** | must · passive |  | any role |  |  |  | as pretend; clearly *property* | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Theme as pretend=Attribute |

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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:027-who-you-are-words-not-body.lesson:17`.

**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 ×3, R6-punct-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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