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title: When something online is scary or upsetting, showing a trusted adult… — How to check: who, how, who else · tree and pragmatics
description: When something online is scary or upsetting, showing a trusted adult is a good step, and it is fine to say "I don't know if this is true". Who acts: something online, showing, I, this. A sentence of the lesson «How to check: who, how, who else» of the politics course of Mova's primary school with it
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# How to check: who, how, who else, sentence 11

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When something online is scary or upsetting, showing a trusted adult is a good step, and it is fine to say "I don't know if this is true".

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**Who acts:** something online, showing, I, this · **What happens:** be, show, trust, say, not know · **To what, where:** trusted adult, good step · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «How to check: who, how, who else» 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 (something online, showing, I, this), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:politics:035-how-to-check-who-how-who-else.lesson:11
# text = When something online is scary or upsetting, showing a trusted adult is a good step, and it is fine to say "I don't know if this is true".
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = politics
# lesson = 035-how-to-check-who-how-who-else.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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
2	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	3	compound	_	_
3	online	online	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	scary	scary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	upsetting	upsetting	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	showing	show	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	csubj	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	trusted	trust	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	amod	_	_
12	adult	adult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	step	step	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	parataxis	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	expl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:nsubj
20	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
21	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	conj	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	csubj	_	_
24	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	28	punct	_	_
25	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
26	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
27	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	28	advmod	_	_
28	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	ccomp	_	_
29	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
30	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	32	nsubj	_	_
31	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
32	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	ccomp	_	_
33	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	32	punct	_	_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=5: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 | **is** | present | something online |  |  |  |  | scary *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | something online *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **show** | gerund |  |  | a trusted adult |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient |
| 4 | **trust** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is a** | present | showing | a good step |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **is** | present | showing *not said here* |  |  |  |  | fine *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **say** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 8 | **not** **know** *in a quote* | present · do-support | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 9 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present | this |  |  |  |  | true *property* | 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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**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, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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