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title: A boy in Canada downloaded a «free» copy of a paid game from a stran… — Staying safe online and checking what you see · tree and pragmatics
description: A boy in Canada downloaded a «free» copy of a paid game from a strange site; it put a virus on the family laptop and his dad's passwords were stolen. Who acts: boy, copy. A sentence of the lesson «Staying safe online and checking what you see» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its
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# Staying safe online and checking what you see, sentence 29

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A boy in Canada downloaded a «free» copy of a paid game from a strange site; it put a virus on the family laptop and his dad's passwords were stolen.

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**Who acts:** boy, copy · **What happens:** download, pay, put, steal, copy · **To what, where:** free copy, strange site, virus, family laptop, passwords, paid game

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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 (boy, copy), 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:29
# text = A boy in Canada downloaded a «free» copy of a paid game from a strange site; it put a virus on the family laptop and his dad's passwords were stolen.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Canada	Canada	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	downloaded	download	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
7	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	_
8	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
10	copy	copy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	paid	pay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	amod	_	_
14	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
15	from	from	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	site	site	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:nmod
19	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	virus	virus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	on	on	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	laptop	laptop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
29	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	dad	dad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod:poss	_	_
31	's	's	PART	POS	_	30	case	_	_
32	passwords	password	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nsubj:pass	_	_
33	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	aux:pass	_	_
34	stolen	steal	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	conj	_	_
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **download** | past | a boy in Canada | a free copy of a paid game |  | a strange site |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **pay** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **put** | past | copy | a virus |  | the family laptop |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent virus=Theme on laptop=Destination |
| 4 | **steal** | past · passive |  | boy's dad's passwords |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 5 | **copy** |  |  | a paid game |  |  |  |  | nom copy «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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:29`.

**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, 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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