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title: Giveaways asking for card details are scams, even if a famous face s… — Keep yourself private, and voices that lie · tree and pragmatics
description: Giveaways asking for card details are scams, even if a famous face seems to promise them. Who acts: Giveaways, famous face. 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 16

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Giveaways asking for card details are scams, even if a famous face seems to promise them.

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**Who acts:** Giveaways, famous face · **What happens:** ask, be, seem, promise · **To what, where:** scams, Giveaways

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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 (Giveaways, famous face), 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:16
# text = Giveaways asking for card details are scams, even if a famous face seems to promise them.
# 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	Giveaways	giveaway	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
2	asking	ask	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	acl	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	card	card	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	details	detail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
6	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	scams	scam	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
9	even	even	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
10	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	famous	famous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	seems	seem	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	promise	promise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
17	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: warn
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: changed polarity=neg, act=warn

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | gerund | Giveaways *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for card details | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | present | Giveaways | scams |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **seem** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | a famous face |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 4 | **promise** *speech: promise* | to-infinitive | a famous face *not said here* |  | Giveaways *= giveaway* |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent they=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.

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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:16`.

**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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