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title: Lonely children are sometimes targeted online by adults pretending t… — Frustration, loneliness, guilt and living with s… · tree and pragmatics
description: Lonely children are sometimes targeted online by adults pretending to be friends. Who acts: adults. A sentence of the lesson «Frustration, loneliness, guilt and living with siblings» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Frustration, loneliness, guilt and living with siblings, sentence 22

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Lonely children are sometimes targeted online by adults pretending to be friends.

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**Who acts:** adults · **What happens:** target, pretend, be · **To what, where:** Lonely children, friends

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Frustration, loneliness, guilt and living with siblings» 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 (adults), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:094-frustration-loneliness-and-siblings.lesson:22
# text = Lonely children are sometimes targeted online by adults pretending to be friends.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 094-frustration-loneliness-and-siblings.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	Lonely	lonely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
4	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	targeted	target	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	online	online	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	adults	adult	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl:agent	_	_
9	pretending	pretend	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	acl	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
11	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	cop	_	_
12	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	xcomp	_	_
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **target** | present · passive | adults | Lonely children |  |  |  | online, sometimes *property* | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
| 2 | **pretend** | gerund | adults *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | to-infinitive | adults *not said here* | friends |  |  |  |  | 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:094-frustration-loneliness-and-siblings.lesson:22`.

**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/).

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