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title: People online may not be who they say they are; grown-ups can preten… — The fake friend online · tree and pragmatics
description: People online may not be who they say they are; grown-ups can pretend to be children. Who acts: People, ups. A sentence of the lesson «The fake friend online» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The fake friend online, sentence 32

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People online may not be who they say they are; grown-ups can pretend to be children.

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**Who acts:** People, ups · **What happens:** not be, grow, pretend, be · **To what, where:** children · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The fake friend online» 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, ups), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:447-the-fake-friend-online.lesson:32
# text = People online may not be who they say they are; grown-ups can pretend to be children.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 447-the-fake-friend-online.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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	People	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
2	online	online	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:advmod
3	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	cop	_	_
6	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	obj	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:nsubj
10	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	ccomp	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:aux:pass
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	ccomp	_	_
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	_
14	ups	up	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
15	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	pretend	pretend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
18	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	cop	_	_
19	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:obj
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | **not** **be** *speech: assert* | may | People |  |  |  |  | say *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **grow** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **pretend** | can | ups |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is a** | to-infinitive | ups *not said here* | children |  |  |  |  | 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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**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:447-the-fake-friend-online.lesson:32`.

**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 ×3, 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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