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title: People online are not always who they say they are, and some adults… — Staying safe online and checking what you see · tree and pragmatics
description: People online are not always who they say they are, and some adults pretend to be children to trick them. Who acts: People, adults. 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 31

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People online are not always who they say they are, and some adults pretend to be children to trick them.

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**Who acts:** People, adults · **What happens:** not be, say, pretend, be, trick · **To what, where:** children, passwords · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (People, adults), 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:31
# text = People online are not always who they say they are, and some adults pretend to be children to trick them.
# 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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	People	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	online	online	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	always	always	ADV	RB	_	1	acl:relcl	_	_
6	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	acl:relcl	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	ccomp	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=8:ccomp|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	14	det	_	_
14	adults	adult	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
15	pretend	pretend	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
17	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	cop	_	_
18	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	xcomp	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	trick	trick	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	advcl	_	_
21	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	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 | **not** **is** | present | People *not said here* |  |  |  |  | always *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | People |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **pretend** | present | some adults |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is a** | to-infinitive | some adults *not said here* | children |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **trick** | to-infinitive | some adults *not said here* | passwords *= password* |  |  |  |  | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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:31`.

**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): R8-pos-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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