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title: A PIN is a secret four-digit number that proves a card is yours, and… — Cards, banks and apps · tree and pragmatics
description: A PIN is a secret four-digit number that proves a card is yours, and banks never ask for it on the phone. Who acts: PIN, secret digit number, card, banks. A sentence of the lesson «Cards, banks and apps» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# Cards, banks and apps, sentence 10

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A PIN is a secret four-digit number that proves a card is yours, and banks never ask for it on the phone.

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**Who acts:** PIN, secret digit number, card, banks · **What happens:** be, prove, not ask · **To what, where:** secret digit number, yours, phone

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Cards, banks and apps» 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 (PIN, secret digit number, card, banks), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:adult-life:007-cards-banks-and-apps.lesson:10
# text = A PIN is a secret four-digit number that proves a card is yours, and banks never ask for it on the phone.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = adult-life
# lesson = 007-cards-banks-and-apps.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): R6-punct-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	PIN	pin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
5	secret	secret	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
6	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	_
8	digit	digit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
10	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
11	proves	prove	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	card	card	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
15	yours	yours	PRON	PRP	Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	ccomp	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=18:punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	banks	bank	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
19	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
20	ask	ask	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obl	_	_
23	on	on	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	phone	phone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | a PIN | a secret digit number |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **prove** | present | a secret digit number |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | present | a card | yours |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **ask** *speech: ask* | present | banks |  |  | the phone |  | for card | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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): R6-punct-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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