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title: Someone you only know online might not be who they say they are; peo… — The friend in the game you never met, and the fa… · tree and pragmatics
description: Someone you only know online might not be who they say they are; people can lie about their name, age and where they live. Who acts: you, Someone, noob, people. A sentence of the lesson «The friend in the game you never met, and the fake friend» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with i
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# The friend in the game you never met, and the fake friend, sentence 24

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Someone you only know online might not be who they say they are; people can lie about their name, age and where they live.

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**Who acts:** you, Someone, noob, people · **What happens:** know, not be, say, be, lie, live · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The friend in the game you never met, and the fake friend» 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 (you, Someone, noob, people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:480-the-friend-in-the-game-you-never-met-and-the-fake-friend.lesson:24
# text = Someone you only know online might not be who they say they are; people can lie about their name, age and where they live.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 480-the-friend-in-the-game-you-never-met-and-the-fake-friend.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): R2-punct-next ×1
1	Someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	8	nsubj	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	only	only	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	acl:relcl	_	_
5	online	online	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	be	be	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	13	obj	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	ccomp	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	ccomp	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=8:punct
15	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
16	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	lie	lie	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
18	about	about	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	age	age	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
24	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	26	advmod	_	_
25	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	live	live	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	acl:relcl	_	_
27	.	.	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 | **know** | present | you |  |  |  |  | online *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **not** **be** | might | Someone |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | noob |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **does** | present | noob |  |  |  |  |  | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot who=Theme |
| 5 | **lie** | can | people |  |  |  |  | about noob's name and age | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent about name=Location |
| 6 | **live** | present | noob |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **name** |  | noob |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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): R2-punct-next ×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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