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title: It was reported that scammers can copy a person's voice from a short… — Keep yourself private, and voices that lie · tree and pragmatics
description: It was reported that scammers can copy a person's voice from a short clip online, so Chloe's aunt got a call that sounded exactly like her crying nephew asking for money. Who acts: scammers, aunt, call, crying nephew. A sentence of the lesson «Keep yourself private, and voices that lie» of the ai co
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# Keep yourself private, and voices that lie, sentence 3

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It was reported that scammers can copy a person's voice from a short clip online, so Chloe's aunt got a call that sounded exactly like her crying nephew asking for money.

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**Who acts:** scammers, aunt, call, crying nephew · **What happens:** report, copy, get, sound, cry, ask · **To what, where:** AI, voice, short clip, call

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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 (scammers, aunt, call, crying nephew), 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:3
# text = It was reported that scammers can copy a person's voice from a short clip online, so Chloe's aunt got a call that sounded exactly like her crying nephew asking for money.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	reported	report	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
5	scammers	scammer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
6	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	copy	copy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	_
10	's	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
12	from	from	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	clip	clip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
16	online	online	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	so	so	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:mark|HaikuPos=SCONJ:IN:_
19	Chloe	Chloe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod:poss	_	_
20	's	's	PART	POS	_	19	case	_	_
21	aunt	aunt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	call	call	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj	_	_
26	sounded	sound	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	acl:relcl	_	_
27	exactly	exactly	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
28	like	like	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
30	crying	cry	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	31	amod	_	_
31	nephew	nephew	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
32	asking	ask	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	31	acl	_	_
33	for	for	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **report** | past · passive |  | AI |  |  |  | online *property* | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: subject=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 2 | **copy** | can | scammers | a person's voice |  | a short clip |  |  | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent voice=Theme |
| 3 | **get** | past | Chloe's aunt | a call |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer call=Stimulus |
| 4 | **sound** | past | a call |  |  |  |  | like aunt's crying nephew | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 5 | **cry** *speech: express* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **ask** *speech: ask* | gerund | aunt's crying nephew *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for money | 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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**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:3`.

**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 ×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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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