--- title: People online can pretend to be anyone. — Strangers who want to chat privately · tree and pragmatics description: People online can pretend to be anyone. Who acts: People. 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/8/) [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/) / 8 # Strangers who want to chat privately, sentence 8 People online can pretend to be anyone. **Who acts:** People · **What happens:** pretend, be · **To what, where:** anyone 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 (People), 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:8 # text = People online can pretend to be anyone. # 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 People people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 2 online online ADV RB _ 1 advmod _ _ 3 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 pretend pretend VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 6 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 7 cop _ _ 7 anyone anyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 4 xcomp _ _ 8 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **pretend** | can | People | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **is a** | to-infinitive | People *not said here* | anyone | | | | | tree rules | 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:8`. **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/). - ← previous: [Strangers who want to chat privately, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/410-strangers-who-want-to-chat-privately/6/) - next →: [Strangers who want to chat privately, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/410-strangers-who-want-to-chat-privately/9/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/410-strangers-who-want-to-chat-privately/)