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title: Pretending to be someone else online can fool and upset real people. — Mean messages, fake ages and sharing photos · tree and pragmatics
description: Pretending to be someone else online can fool and upset real people. Who acts: Pretending. A sentence of the lesson «Mean messages, fake ages and sharing photos» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Mean messages, fake ages and sharing photos, sentence 18

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Pretending to be someone else online can fool and upset real people.

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**Who acts:** Pretending · **What happens:** pretend, be, fool, upset · **To what, where:** someone, real people

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Mean messages, fake ages and sharing photos» 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 (Pretending), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:363-group-chat-laughs-fake-profiles-passwords-and-game-skins.lesson:18
# text = Pretending to be someone else online can fool and upset real people.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 363-group-chat-laughs-fake-profiles-passwords-and-game-skins.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
1	Pretending	pretend	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	csubj	_	_
2	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	cop	_	_
4	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	1	xcomp	_	_
5	else	else	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	online	online	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
7	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	fool	fool	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	upset	upset	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
11	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 a** | to-infinitive |  | someone |  |  |  | else, online *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **fool** | can | Pretending | real people |  |  |  |  | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Patient |
| 4 | **upset** | infinitive | Pretending *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

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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:363-group-chat-laughs-fake-profiles-passwords-and-game-skins.lesson:18`.

**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. **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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