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title: Words online hurt just as much as words said aloud, and a post or ph… — Staying safe and kind online · tree and pragmatics
description: Words online hurt just as much as words said aloud, and a post or photo can be copied and kept forever, so before you send something, ask: «Would I say this to their face? Who acts: Words, you, I. A sentence of the lesson «Staying safe and kind online» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school
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# Staying safe and kind online, sentence 2

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Words online hurt just as much as words said aloud, and a post or photo can be copied and kept forever, so before you send something, ask: «Would I say this to their face?

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**Who acts:** Words, you, I · **What happens:** hurt, say, copy, keep, send, ask · **To what, where:** much, post, something, this, face · **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 (Words, you, I), 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:2
# text = Words online hurt just as much as words said aloud, and a post or photo can be copied and kept forever, so before you send something, ask: «Would I say this to their face?
# 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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	online	online	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:advmod
3	hurt	hurt	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	just	just	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
5	as	as	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	obj	_	_
7	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
9	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
10	aloud	aloud	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	post	post	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	photo	photo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
17	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	copied	copy	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	kept	keep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	conj	_	_
22	forever	forever	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
24	so	so	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
25	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
26	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	send	send	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	advcl	_	_
28	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	27	obj	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
30	ask	ask	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj
31	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	30	punct	_	_
32	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	35	punct	_	_
33	Would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
34	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
35	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	ccomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=30:parataxis
36	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	35	obj	_	_
37	to	to	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	39	nmod:poss	_	_
39	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
40	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: yes/no question
- act: suggest
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- indirect: yes
- teacher: changed act=suggest, indirect=1

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hurt** | past | Words | much |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer much=Patient |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | words |  |  |  |  | aloud *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **copy** | can · passive |  | a post or photo |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **keep** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | forever *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **send** | present | you | something |  |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Theme |
| 6 | **ask** *speech: ask* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 7 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | would | I | this | photos's face |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent this=Topic to face=Recipient |

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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:2`.

**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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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