--- title: A scam is a fake message trying to trick people into giving away pas… — Being a good grown-up · tree and pragmatics description: A scam is a fake message trying to trick people into giving away passwords or money; real banks never ask for your password by email or text. Who acts: scam, fake message, real banks. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (scam, fake message, real banks), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:adult-life:040-being-a-good-grown-up.lesson:11 # text = A scam is a fake message trying to trick people into giving away passwords or money; real banks never ask for your password by email or text. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = adult-life # lesson = 040-being-a-good-grown-up.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): R7-rel-agree ×2 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 scam scam NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 fake fake ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 message message NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 7 trying try VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 6 acl _ _ 8 to to PART TO _ 9 mark _ _ 9 trick trick VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 xcomp _ _ 10 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obj _ _ 11 into into SCONJ IN _ 12 mark _ _ 12 giving give VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 9 advcl _ _ 13 away away ADP RP _ 12 compound:prt _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 14 passwords password NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obj _ _ 15 or or CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 conj _ _ 17 ; ; PUNCT : _ 21 punct _ _ 18 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 banks bank NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nsubj _ _ 20 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 21 advmod _ _ 21 ask ask VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj 22 for for ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 24 password password NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 25 by by ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 email email NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 27 or or CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 text text NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 conj _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | a scam | a fake message | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **try** | gerund | a fake message *not said here* | | | | | | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 3 | **trick** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | a fake message *not said here* | people | | | | | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Patient | | 4 | **give away** | gerund | a fake message *not said here* | passwords or money | | | | | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent password=Theme | | 5 | **not** **ask** *speech: ask* | present | real banks | | | | | for your password; by email or text | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:adult-life:040-being-a-good-grown-up.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): R7-rel-agree ×2. **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/). - ← previous: [Being a good grown-up, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/40-being-a-good-grown-up/10/) - next →: [Being a good grown-up, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/40-being-a-good-grown-up/12/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/40-being-a-good-grown-up/)