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title: Only accept friend requests from people you know in real life, becau… — Staying safe online and checking what you see · tree and pragmatics
description: Only accept friend requests from people you know in real life, because strangers can pretend to be anyone. Who acts: you, strangers. A sentence of the lesson «Staying safe online and checking what you see» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# Staying safe online and checking what you see, sentence 17

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Only accept friend requests from people you know in real life, because strangers can pretend to be anyone.

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**Who acts:** you, strangers · **What happens:** accept, know, pretend, be · **To what, where:** friend requests, people, real life, anyone

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Staying safe online and checking what you see» of the everyday 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, strangers), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:283-safe-online-and-checking-what-you-see.lesson:17
# text = Only accept friend requests from people you know in real life, because strangers can pretend to be anyone.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 283-safe-online-and-checking-what-you-see.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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	accept	accept	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	requests	request	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
14	strangers	stranger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
15	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	pretend	pretend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
18	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	cop	_	_
19	anyone	anyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	16	xcomp	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **accept** | imperative | you *not said here* | friend requests |  |  |  | from people | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent request=Theme from people=Source |
| 2 | **know** | present | you | people *not said here* |  | real life |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer people=Stimulus |
| 3 | **pretend** | can | strangers |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is a** | to-infinitive | strangers *not said here* | anyone |  |  |  |  | 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:everyday:283-safe-online-and-checking-what-you-see.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): R7-rel-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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