The fake friend online, sentence 32

People online may not be who they say they are; grown-ups can pretend to be children.

Who acts: People, ups · What happens: not be, grow, pretend, be · To what, where: children · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «The fake friend online» 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 (People, ups), 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	People	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 say	nsubj
2	online	online	ADV	_	1 People	advmod
3	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 say	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 say	advmod
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 say	cop
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 say	obj
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 say	nsubj
8	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 are	nsubj
10	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 say	ccomp
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 grown	punct
12	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 say	ccomp
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 pretend	punct
14	ups	up	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 pretend	nsubj
15	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 pretend	aux
16	pretend	pretend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 grown	conj
17	to	to	PART	_	19 children	mark
18	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 children	cop
19	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 pretend	xcomp
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 say	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not be speech: assert	may	People		say property	tree rules
2	grow	participle				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	pretend	can	ups			tree rules
4	is a	to-infinitive	ups not said here	children		tree rules

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:447-the-fake-friend-online.lesson:32.

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 ×3, 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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