--- title: They used to give themselves away with spelling mistakes; now their… — Strangers, hooks and too-perfect messages · tree and pragmatics description: They used to give themselves away with spelling mistakes; now their emails can look perfect, and "AI says you've won a prize!" just borrows a clever-sounding word. Who acts: Scammers, emails, AI, you. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Scammers, emails, AI, you), 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:4 # text = They used to give themselves away with spelling mistakes; now their emails can look perfect, and "AI says you've won a prize!" just borrows a clever-sounding word. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 used use VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 to to PART TO _ 4 mark _ _ 4 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 xcomp _ _ 5 themselves themselves PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 4 obj _ _ 6 away away ADV RB _ 4 compound:prt _ _ 7 with with ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 spelling spelling NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 mistakes mistake NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ 10 ; ; PUNCT : _ 2 punct _ _ 11 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 15 advmod _ _ 12 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 emails email NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nsubj _ _ 14 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 15 look look VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 parataxis _ _ 16 perfect perfect ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 xcomp _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 19 " " PUNCT `` _ 21 punct _ _ 20 AI ai NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=21:nsubj|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing 21 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 advcl _ _ 22 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 23 've have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 24 won win VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 21 ccomp _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 prize prize NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 27 ! ! PUNCT . _ 21 punct _ _ 28 " " PUNCT '' _ 21 punct _ _ 29 just just ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 30 borrows borrow VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:parataxis 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 32 clever clever ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 33 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 32 punct _ _ 34 sounding sound VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 35 amod _ _ 35 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **use** | past | Scammers *= scammer* | | | | | | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 2 | **give away** | to-infinitive | Scammers *= scammer* *not said here* | Scammers *= scammer* | | | | with spelling mistakes | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme | | 3 | **look** | can | Scammers's emails | | | | now | perfect *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 4 | **say** *speech: express* *in a quote* | present | AI | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **win** *in a quote* | present · perfect | you | a prize | | | | | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prize=Eventuality | | 6 | **borrow** | present | Scammers *= scammer* *not said here* | a clever sounding word | | | | | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme | | 7 | **sound** | gerund | | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 8 | **email** | | Scammers *= scammer* | | | | | | nom email «communication transitive»: poss=agent | 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. **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:4`. **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, R8-pos-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/). - ← previous: [Strangers, hooks and too-perfect messa…, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/13-strangers-hooks-and-too-perfect-messages/3/) - next →: [Strangers, hooks and too-perfect messa…, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/13-strangers-hooks-and-too-perfect-messages/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/13-strangers-hooks-and-too-perfect-messages/)