--- title: And when a stranger told Zara she was «the best player EVER», she sa… — Strangers who want to chat privately · tree and pragmatics description: And when a stranger told Zara she was «the best player EVER», she said «thanks» and kept chatting only in the game: lots of flattery from a stranger can be a hook to win your trust. Who acts: stranger, Zara, your. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stranger, Zara, your), 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:13 # text = And when a stranger told Zara she was «the best player EVER», she said «thanks» and kept chatting only in the game: lots of flattery from a stranger can be a hook to win your trust. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 2 when when SCONJ WRB _ 5 mark _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 stranger stranger NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 advcl _ _ 6 Zara Zara PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 iobj _ _ 7 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 8 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ _ 9 « « PUNCT `` _ 12 punct _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 best good ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 12 amod _ _ 12 player player NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 ccomp _ _ 13 EVER ever ADV RB PronType=Ind 12 advmod _ _ 14 » » PUNCT '' _ 12 punct _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 18 « « PUNCT `` _ 19 punct _ _ 19 thanks thanks NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 ccomp _ _ 20 » » PUNCT '' _ 19 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=22:punct 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 kept keep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ _ 23 chatting chat VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 22 xcomp _ _ 24 only only ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 25 in in ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 game game NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 28 : : PUNCT : _ 29 punct _ _ 29 lots lot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 conj _ _ 30 of of ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 flattery flattery NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nmod _ _ 32 from from ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 stranger stranger NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=29:nmod 35 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 38 aux _ _ 36 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 38 cop _ _ 37 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 hook hook NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nmod _ _ 39 to to PART TO _ 40 mark _ _ 40 win win VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 38 acl _ _ 41 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 42 nmod:poss _ _ 42 trust trust NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obj _ _ 43 . . PUNCT . _ 17 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=5:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: warn - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: changed act=warn, polarity=neg | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | a stranger | | Zara | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent zara=Recipient | | 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | past | Zara | the best player | | | ever | | tree rules | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Zara | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **keep** | past | Zara *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **chat** *speech: other* | gerund | Zara *not said here* | | | the game | | | vn chit\_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **is a** | can | | a hook | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **win** | to-infinitive | Zara *not said here* | your trust | | | | | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trust=Eventuality | | 8 | **trust** | | your | | | | | | nom trust «possession intransitive»: poss=agent | 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. **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:13`. **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, R6-punct-agree ×2. **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. 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