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title: Leaving a chat that has turned mean, or telling an adult, is a brave… — Mean messages, fake ages and sharing photos · tree and pragmatics
description: Leaving a chat that has turned mean, or telling an adult, is a brave and sensible choice. Who acts: chat, Leaving. 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 24

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Leaving a chat that has turned mean, or telling an adult, is a brave and sensible choice.

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**Who acts:** chat, Leaving · **What happens:** leave, turn, tell, be · **To what, where:** chat, adult, brave choice · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (chat, Leaving), 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:24
# text = Leaving a chat that has turned mean, or telling an adult, is a brave and sensible choice.
# 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): no change
1	Leaving	leave	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	csubj	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	chat	chat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
5	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	turned	turn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	acl:relcl	_	_
7	mean	mean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	telling	tell	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	conj	_	_
11	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	adult	adult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
16	brave	brave	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	sensible	sensible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	conj	_	_
19	choice	choice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: evaluate
- 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 | **leave** | gerund |  | a chat |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chat=Theme |
| 2 | **turn** | present · perfect | a chat |  |  |  |  | mean *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund |  |  | a adult |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient |
| 4 | **is a** | present | Leaving | a brave choice |  |  |  |  | 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:24`.

**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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