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title: Ollie's mum explained that you cannot see who is really typing, and… — Strangers who want to chat privately · tree and pragmatics
description: Ollie's mum explained that you cannot see who is really typing, and Ollie kept the friendship to in-game chat only. Who acts: mum, you, Ollie. A sentence of the lesson «Strangers who want to chat privately» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o
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# Strangers who want to chat privately, sentence 10

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Ollie's mum explained that you cannot see who is really typing, and Ollie kept the friendship to in-game chat only.

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**Who acts:** mum, you, Ollie · **What happens:** explain, not see, type, keep · **To what, where:** friendship · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Strangers who want to chat privately» 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 (mum, you, Ollie), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:410-strangers-who-want-to-chat-privately.lesson:10
# text = Ollie's mum explained that you cannot see who is really typing, and Ollie kept the friendship to in-game chat only.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 410-strangers-who-want-to-chat-privately.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	Ollie	Ollie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	explained	explain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
7	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
9	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	ccomp	_	_
10	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	really	really	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	typing	type	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	ccomp	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	Ollie	Ollie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	friendship	friendship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	_
23	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	chat	chat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
25	only	only	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **explain** *speech: assert* | past | Ollie's mum |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **not** **see** | can | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **type** | present · progressive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **keep** | past | Ollie | the friendship |  |  |  | to game chat | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friendship=Theme |

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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:410-strangers-who-want-to-chat-privately.lesson:10`.

**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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