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title: Snooping means looking at things that are meant for someone else: di… — Peeking at presents and secrets · tree and pragmatics
description: Snooping means looking at things that are meant for someone else: diaries, messages, letters, desks, conversations through a door. Who acts: Snooping. A sentence of the lesson «Peeking at presents and secrets» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# Peeking at presents and secrets, sentence 9

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Snooping means looking at things that are meant for someone else: diaries, messages, letters, desks, conversations through a door.

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**Who acts:** Snooping · **What happens:** mean, look · **To what, where:** things

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Peeking at presents and secrets» 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 (Snooping), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:356-peeking-at-presents-diaries-and-letters.lesson:9
# text = Snooping means looking at things that are meant for someone else: diaries, messages, letters, desks, conversations through a door.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 356-peeking-at-presents-diaries-and-letters.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): no change
1	Snooping	snoop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	looking	look	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	xcomp	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
6	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	meant	mean	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl:relcl	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	8	obl	_	_
11	else	else	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
13	diaries	diary	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	messages	message	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	letters	letter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	desks	desk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	conversations	conversation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	_
22	through	through	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
25	.	.	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 | **mean** | present | Snooping |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **look** *not said to happen* | gerund | Snooping *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at things | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at thing=Theme |
| 3 | **mean** | present · passive |  | things |  |  |  | for someone | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Theme for someone=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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**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): no change. **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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