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title: Signs of a scam: it is urgent, it asks for money, a PIN or a passwor… — Olympiad: what is really going on ★★★ · tree and pragmatics
description: Signs of a scam: it is urgent, it asks for money, a PIN or a password, and it offers a prize or refund you never expected. Who acts: newspaper, you. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: what is really going on ★★★» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pra
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# Olympiad: what is really going on ★★★, sentence 18

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Signs of a scam: it is urgent, it asks for money, a PIN or a password, and it offers a prize or refund you never expected.

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**Who acts:** newspaper, you · **What happens:** be, ask, offer, not expect, sign · **To what, where:** prize, scam

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: what is really going on ★★★» of the adult life 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 (newspaper, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:adult-life:061-olympiad-what-is-really-going-on.lesson:18
# text = Signs of a scam: it is urgent, it asks for money, a PIN or a password, and it offers a prize or refund you never expected.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = adult-life
# lesson = 061-olympiad-what-is-really-going-on.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): R1-cc-next ×3, R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2
1	Signs	sign	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	scam	scam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	urgent	urgent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=1:punct
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	asks	ask	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	PIN	pin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:obl
17	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=16:cc
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	password	password	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=11:cc
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	offers	offer	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	prize	prize	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=25:cc
27	refund	refund	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	_
28	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
29	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	30	advmod	_	_
30	expected	expect	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	acl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=27:acl
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=11: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 | newspaper |  |  |  |  | urgent *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | newspaper |  |  |  |  | for money and a PIN or a password | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **offer** | present | newspaper | a prize or refund |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent prize=Theme |
| 4 | **not** **expect** | past | you | a prize or refund *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prize=Theme |
| 5 | **sign** |  |  | a scam |  |  |  |  | nom sign «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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): R1-cc-next ×3, R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-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/).

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