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title: A stranger who asks you to move to a private chat or another app is… — Strangers who want to chat privately · tree and pragmatics
description: A stranger who asks you to move to a private chat or another app is a danger sign. Who acts: stranger. 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.
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# Strangers who want to chat privately, sentence 27

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A stranger who asks you to move to a private chat or another app is a danger sign.

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**Who acts:** stranger · **What happens:** ask, move, be · **To what, where:** you, private chat, danger sign

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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 (stranger), 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:27
# text = A stranger who asks you to move to a private chat or another app is a danger sign.
# 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	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	stranger	stranger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	asks	ask	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	move	move	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	private	private	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	chat	chat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
12	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	14	det	_	_
14	app	app	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	danger	danger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	sign	sign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	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 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | a stranger |  | you |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S\_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **move** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | a stranger *not said here* |  |  | a private chat or another app |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to chat=Trajectory |
| 3 | **is a** | present | a stranger | a danger sign |  |  |  |  | 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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**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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