--- title: A girl in Canada chatted online with someone who said he was 12 and… — Staying safe and kind online · tree and pragmatics description: A girl in Canada chatted online with someone who said he was 12 and liked her favourite band; he asked to meet her alone, and when her parents checked, he was a grown man, and the police stepped in. Who acts: girl, Canada, parents, police. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, Canada, parents, police), 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:6 # text = A girl in Canada chatted online with someone who said he was 12 and liked her favourite band; he asked to meet her alone, and when her parents checked, he was a grown man, and the police stepped in. # 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): no change 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Canada Canada PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 chatted chat VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 online online ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 7 with with ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 5 obl _ _ 9 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 10 nsubj _ _ 10 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 acl:relcl _ _ 11 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 12 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 13 12 12 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 10 ccomp _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 liked like VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 16 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 17 favourite favourite ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 band band NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 19 ; ; PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 asked ask VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 22 to to PART TO _ 23 mark _ _ 23 meet meet VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 xcomp _ _ 24 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 obj _ _ 25 alone alone ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 28 when when SCONJ WRB _ 31 mark _ _ 29 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 30 parents parent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 nsubj _ _ 31 checked check VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 33 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 nsubj _ _ 34 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 37 cop _ _ 35 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 36 grown grow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 37 amod _ _ 37 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 ccomp _ _ 38 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 police police NOUN NNS Number=Plur 42 nsubj _ _ 42 stepped step VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 37 conj _ _ 43 in in ADV RB _ 42 advmod _ _ 44 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **chat** *speech: other* | past | a girl in Canada | | | | | with someone; online *property* | vn chit\_chat-37.6 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with someone=Co-Agent | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is a** | past | Canada | 12 | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **like** | past | | girl's favourite band | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot band=Theme | | 5 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | Canada | | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **meet** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Canada *not said here* | girl | | | | alone *property* | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Co-Agent | | 7 | **check** | past | girl's parents | | | | | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **grow** | participle | | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 9 | **is a** | past | Canada | a grown man | | | | | tree rules | | 10 | **step in** | past | the police | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:059-staying-safe-and-kind-online.lesson:6`. **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: [Staying safe and kind online, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/59-staying-safe-and-kind-online/5/) - next →: [Staying safe and kind online, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/59-staying-safe-and-kind-online/8/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/59-staying-safe-and-kind-online/)