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title: A password is private; giving a friend's password to someone else le… — Mean messages, fake ages and sharing photos · tree and pragmatics
description: A password is private; giving a friend's password to someone else lets them pretend to be your friend. Who acts: password, giving, people. 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 pragmatic
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# Mean messages, fake ages and sharing photos, sentence 21

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A password is private; giving a friend's password to someone else lets them pretend to be your friend.

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**Who acts:** password, giving, people · **What happens:** be, give, let, pretend · **To what, where:** password, someone, people, friend

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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 (password, giving, people), 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:21
# text = A password is private; giving a friend's password to someone else lets them pretend to be your friend.
# 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, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	password	password	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	private	private	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	giving	give	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Ger	14	csubj	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	's	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	password	password	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=12:case|HaikuPos=ADP:TO:_
12	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	6	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:nmod
13	else	else	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	lets	let	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
15	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	pretend	pretend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
18	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	cop	_	_
19	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	xcomp	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **is** | present | a password |  |  |  |  | private *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **give** | gerund |  | a friend's password | someone |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent password=Theme to someone=Recipient |
| 3 | **let** | present | giving | people |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **pretend** | infinitive | people *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **is a** | to-infinitive | people *not said here* | your friend |  |  |  |  | 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:363-group-chat-laughs-fake-profiles-passwords-and-game-skins.lesson:21`.

**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, 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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