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title: guy on game says get rich quick, just send $5 — Too-good-to-be-true offers, online sca… · tree and pragmatics
description: guy on game says get rich quick, just send $5 Test 10 · ★★ of lesson 314 «Too-good-to-be-true offers, online scams and checking the news» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was right.
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# Test 10 · ★★ · Too-good-to-be-true offers, online scams and checking the…

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
guy on game says get rich quick, just send $5

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** guy · **What happens:** say, get, send · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 10 · ★★ of lesson 314 «Too-good-to-be-true offers, online scams and checking the news» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: [the test at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/everyday/314-too-good-offers-scams-and-checking-news/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:314-too-good-offers-scams-and-checking-news:t10:1
# text = guy on game says get rich quick, just send $5
1	guy	guy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	on	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
4	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	ccomp	_	_
6	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	quick	quick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	just	just	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	send	send	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
11	$	$	SYM	$	_	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	5	5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | guy on game |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **get** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | quick *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **send** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent $=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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Send it, $5 is only a small amount

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:314-too-good-offers-scams-and-checking-news:t10:o1:1
# text = Send it, $5 is only a small amount
1	Send	send	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
4	$	$	SYM	$	_	10	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	5	5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
7	only	only	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	amount	amount	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	parataxis	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send** | imperative | you *not said here* | it |  |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | present |  | a $ small amount |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Ignore it and tell an adult

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:314-too-good-offers-scams-and-checking-news:t10:o2:1
# text = Ignore it and tell an adult
1	Ignore	ignore	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	tell	tell	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
5	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	adult	adult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ignore** | imperative | you *not said here* | it |  |  |  |  | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive | you *not said here* |  | a adult |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Send it, it pays you back $50 later

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:314-too-good-offers-scams-and-checking-news:t10:o3:1
# text = Send it, it pays you back $50 later
1	Send	send	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	pays	pay	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	iobj	_	_
7	back	back	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	$	$	SYM	$	_	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	50	50	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
10	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	1	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send** | imperative | you *not said here* | it |  |  |  | late *property* | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 2 | **pay** | present | it |  | you |  |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient $=Asset |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Ask him to prove it works first

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:314-too-good-offers-scams-and-checking-news:t10:o4:1
# text = Ask him to prove it works first
1	Ask	ask	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	prove	prove	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	xcomp	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	works	work	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
7	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	6	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | imperative | you *not said here* |  | him *= he* |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S\_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **prove** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **work** | present | it |  |  |  |  | first *property* | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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**Text:** the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (`world/data/school/`), as the course runner gave them to the student. **Trees:** Mova's own parse — the `en` model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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