Strangers who want to chat privately, sentence 11
When a stranger offered Kai free Robux if he would chat on a different app, Kai's dad explained that real friends do not offer gifts to move you somewhere private.
Who acts: stranger, dad, real friends · What happens: offer, chat, explain, not offer, move · To what, where: free Robux, Kai, different app, gifts, you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Strangers who want to chat privately» 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 (stranger, dad, real friends), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 4 offered | mark |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 stranger | det |
| 3 | stranger | stranger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 offered | nsubj |
| 4 | offered | offer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 explained | advcl |
| 5 | Kai | Kai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 offered | obj |
| 6 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Robux | amod |
| 7 | Robux | Robux | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 offered | obj |
| 8 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 11 chat | mark |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 chat | nsubj |
| 10 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 chat | aux |
| 11 | chat | chat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 offered | advcl |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 app | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 app | det |
| 14 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 app | amod |
| 15 | app | app | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 chat | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 chat | punct |
| 17 | Kai | Kai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 dad | nmod:poss |
| 18 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 17 Kai | case |
| 19 | dad | dad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 explained | nsubj |
| 20 | explained | explain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 26 offer | mark |
| 22 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 friends | amod |
| 23 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 offer | nsubj |
| 24 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 offer | aux |
| 25 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 26 offer | advmod |
| 26 | offer | offer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 explained | ccomp |
| 27 | gifts | gift | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 offer | obj |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 move | mark |
| 29 | move | move | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 offer | advcl |
| 30 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 29 move | obj |
| 31 | somewhere | somewhere | ADV | PronType=Ind | 32 private | advmod |
| 32 | private | private | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 move | xcomp |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 explained | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | offer | past | a stranger | free Robux | Kai | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent kai=Goal robux=Theme | |||
| 2 | chat speech: other a condition, not said to happen | would | stranger | a different app | vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | explain speech: assert | past | Kai's dad | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | not offer | present · do-support | real friends | gifts | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent gift=Theme | ||||
| 5 | move | to-infinitive | real friends not said here | you | private property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V ADJ.result»: agent=Theme you=Result |
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, 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:410-strangers-who-want-to-chat-privately.lesson:11.
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 ×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.
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