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title: People type things in group chats they would not say face to face; m… — Grandma and Uncle on opposite sides: staying fri… · tree and pragmatics
description: People type things in group chats they would not say face to face; muting a chat is a way to take a break. Who acts: People, muting. A sentence of the lesson «Grandma and Uncle on opposite sides: staying friends» of the politics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragma
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# Grandma and Uncle on opposite sides: staying friends, sentence 16

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People type things in group chats they would not say face to face; muting a chat is a way to take a break.

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**Who acts:** People, muting · **What happens:** type, not say, mute, be, take · **To what, where:** things, group chats, face, chat, way, break · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Grandma and Uncle on opposite sides: staying friends» of the politics 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, muting), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:politics:015-grandma-and-uncle-on-opposite-sides-staying-friends.lesson:16
# text = People type things in group chats they would not say face to face; muting a chat is a way to take a break.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = politics
# lesson = 015-grandma-and-uncle-on-opposite-sides-staying-friends.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
1	People	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	type	type	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	group	group	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	chats	chat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:nmod
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
8	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
10	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	acl:relcl	_	_
11	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	2	punct	_	_
15	muting	mute	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	20	csubj	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	chat	chat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	acl	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	break	break	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **type** | present | People | things |  | group chats |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent thing=Theme in chat=Destination |
| 2 | **not** **say** *speech: assert* | would | People | face to face |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent thing=Topic |
| 3 | **mute** | gerund |  | a chat |  |  |  |  | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent chat=Patient |
| 4 | **is a** | present | muting | a way |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **take** | to-infinitive | People *not said here* | a break |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent break=Theme |

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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): R5-strong ×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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