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title: It was reported that scammers use cloned voices to pretend to be tru… — Secrets, scams and always telling a grown-up · tree and pragmatics
description: It was reported that scammers use cloned voices to pretend to be trusted people such as relatives or schools. Who acts: scammers. A sentence of the lesson «Secrets, scams and always telling a grown-up» of the ai course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla
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# Secrets, scams and always telling a grown-up, sentence 11

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It was reported that scammers use cloned voices to pretend to be trusted people such as relatives or schools.

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**Who acts:** scammers · **What happens:** report, use, clone, pretend, trust · **To what, where:** trouble, cloned voices, trusted people

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Secrets, scams and always telling a grown-up» 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), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:ai:016-secrets-scams-telling.lesson:11
# text = It was reported that scammers use cloned voices to pretend to be trusted people such as relatives or schools.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = ai
# lesson = 016-secrets-scams-telling.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 ×2
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	_	6	mark	_	_
5	scammers	scammer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	use	use	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
7	cloned	clone	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	amod	_	_
8	voices	voice	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	pretend	pretend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
12	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	trusted	trust	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:xcomp
14	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	xcomp	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:obj
15	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	17	case	_	_
16	as	as	ADP	IN	_	15	fixed	_	_
17	relatives	relative	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	_
18	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	schools	school	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **report** | past · passive |  | trouble |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: subject=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 2 | **use** | present | scammers | cloned voices |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent voice=Patient |
| 3 | **clone** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **pretend** | to-infinitive | scammers *not said here* | trusted people such relatives or schools |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **trust** | to-infinitive · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S» |

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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:016-secrets-scams-telling.lesson:11`.

**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 ×2. **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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