--- title: A player told Priya «don't tell your parents about me, they wouldn't… — Strangers who want to chat privately · tree and pragmatics description: A player told Priya «don't tell your parents about me, they wouldn't understand». Who acts: player, parents. 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 of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/410-strangers-who-want-to-chat-privately/15/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Strangers who want to chat privately](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/410-strangers-who-want-to-chat-privately/) / 15 # Strangers who want to chat privately, sentence 15 A player told Priya «don't tell your parents about me, they wouldn't understand». **Who acts:** player, parents · **What happens:** tell, not tell, not understand · **To what, where:** Priya, parents · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (player, parents), 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:15 # text = A player told Priya «don't tell your parents about me, they wouldn't understand». # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 player player NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 Priya Priya PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 iobj _ _ 5 « « PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ _ 6 do do AUX VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 7 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 8 advmod _ _ 8 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 ccomp _ _ 9 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 parents parent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ _ 11 about about ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 8 obl _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 14 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 15 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 16 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 17 advmod _ _ 17 understand understand VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:conj 18 » » PUNCT '' _ 8 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3:punct 19 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: request - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: changed form=imp | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | a player | | Priya | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Agent priya=Recipient clause=Topic | | 2 | **not** **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | infinitive · do-support | | | your parents | | | about a player *= player* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent parent=Recipient about i=Topic | | 3 | **not** **understand** *in a quote* | would | parents *= parent* | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | 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:15`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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. 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