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title: To check a message from "the bank", call the number on the card, nev… — Strangers, hooks and too-perfect messages · tree and pragmatics
description: To check a message from "the bank", call the number on the card, never one in the message. Who acts: number. A sentence of the lesson «Strangers, hooks and too-perfect messages» of the ai course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Strangers, hooks and too-perfect messages, sentence 17

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To check a message from "the bank", call the number on the card, never one in the message.

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**Who acts:** number · **What happens:** check, call · **To what, where:** message, bank, card · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Strangers, hooks and too-perfect messages» 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 (number), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:ai:013-strangers-hooks-and-too-perfect-messages.lesson:17
# text = To check a message from "the bank", call the number on the card, never one in the message.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = ai
# lesson = 013-strangers-hooks-and-too-perfect-messages.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): R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	check	check	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	message	message	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	bank	bank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:obl
9	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	call	call	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:parataxis
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	card	card	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
19	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	parataxis	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	message	message	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2: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 | **check** | to-infinitive | the number *not said here* | a message |  | the bank |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent message=Theme |
| 2 | **call** *speech: assert* | imperative | the number |  |  | the card |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «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:013-strangers-hooks-and-too-perfect-messages.lesson:17`.

**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): R5-strong ×3, 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.

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

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