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title: People online may not be who they say: a «10-year-old» in a game cha… — Staying safe and kind online · tree and pragmatics
description: People online may not be who they say: a «10-year-old» in a game chat could be an adult; never agree to meet someone you know only online, and tell a parent if anyone asks for photos, secrets or a meeting. Who acts: People, you, parent, anyone. A sentence of the lesson «Staying safe and kind online»
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# Staying safe and kind online, sentence 1

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People online may not be who they say: a «10-year-old» in a game chat could be an adult; never agree to meet someone you know only online, and tell a parent if anyone asks for photos, secrets or a meeting.

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**Who acts:** People, you, parent, anyone · **What happens:** not be, say, be, not agree, meet, know · **To what, where:** someone · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Staying safe and kind 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, you, parent, anyone), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:059-staying-safe-and-kind-online.lesson:1
# text = People online may not be who they say: a «10-year-old» in a game chat could be an adult; never agree to meet someone you know only online, and tell a parent if anyone asks for photos, secrets or a meeting.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 059-staying-safe-and-kind-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	5	nsubj	_	_
2	online	online	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:advmod
3	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	be	be	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
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=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	ccomp	_	_
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:det
11	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
12	10	10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	_
14	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:obl:unmarked
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	_
16	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	»	»	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	parataxis	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	chat	chat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
22	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
23	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	cop	_	_
24	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	adult	adult	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	conj	_	_
26	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	28	advmod	_	_
28	agree	agree	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	meet	meet	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	xcomp	_	_
31	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	30	obj	_	_
32	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
33	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	acl:relcl	_	_
34	only	only	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
35	online	online	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
38	tell	tell	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	28	conj	_	_
39	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	parent	parent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obj	_	_
41	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	43	mark	_	_
42	anyone	anyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	43	nsubj	_	_
43	asks	ask	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	38	advcl	_	_
44	for	for	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	photos	photo	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	obl	_	_
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
47	secrets	secret	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	45	conj	_	_
48	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc	_	_
49	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
50	meeting	meeting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	conj	_	_
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: warn
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=warn

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **be** | may | People |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | People |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent who=Topic |
| 3 | **is** | could | People *not said here* |  |  |  |  | adult *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **agree** *speech: agree* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **meet** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  | someone |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent someone=Co-Agent |
| 6 | **know** | present | you |  |  |  |  | online *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 7 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive | a parent |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **ask** *speech: ask* *a condition, not said to happen* | present | anyone |  |  |  |  | for photos and secrets or a meeting | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=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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**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:059-staying-safe-and-kind-online.lesson:1`.

**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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