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title: If a call sounds like family asking for money, hang up and call them… — Keep yourself private, and voices that lie · tree and pragmatics
description: If a call sounds like family asking for money, hang up and call them back on their usual number. Who acts: call, family, you. A sentence of the lesson «Keep yourself private, and voices that lie» of the ai course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Keep yourself private, and voices that lie, sentence 13

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If a call sounds like family asking for money, hang up and call them back on their usual number.

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**Who acts:** call, family, you · **What happens:** sound, ask, hang up, call back · **To what, where:** scammers, usual number

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Keep yourself private, and voices that lie» of the ai 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 (call, family, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:ai:012-keep-yourself-private-and-voices-that-lie.lesson:13
# text = If a call sounds like family asking for money, hang up and call them back on their usual number.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = ai
# lesson = 012-keep-yourself-private-and-voices-that-lie.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): no change
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	call	call	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	sounds	sound	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
5	like	like	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	asking	ask	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	acl	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
11	hang	hang	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	up	up	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	call	call	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
15	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	back	back	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	_
17	on	on	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
19	usual	usual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	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 | **sound** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | a call |  |  |  |  | like family | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | gerund | family *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for money | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **hang up** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **call back** *speech: assert* | infinitive | you *not said here* | scammers *= scammer* |  | scammers's usual number |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient |

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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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**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:ai:012-keep-yourself-private-and-voices-that-lie.lesson:13`.

**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): no change. **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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