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title: Giving to known charities, with a grown-up, is safer than giving to… — Secrets, scams and always telling a grown-up · tree and pragmatics
description: Giving to known charities, with a grown-up, is safer than giving to a viral plea from a stranger. Who acts: Giving. 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 clause.
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# Secrets, scams and always telling a grown-up, sentence 7

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Giving to known charities, with a grown-up, is safer than giving to a viral plea from a stranger.

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**Who acts:** Giving · **What happens:** give, know, be · **To what, where:** known charities, viral plea

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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 (Giving), 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:7
# text = Giving to known charities, with a grown-up, is safer than giving to a viral plea from a stranger.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Giving	give	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	csubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:nsubj
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	amod	_	_
4	charities	charity	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
8	grown	grow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	_
10	up	up	ADP	RP	_	8	compound	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
13	safer	safe	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
14	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
15	giving	give	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	viral	viral	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	plea	plea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
20	from	from	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	stranger	stranger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=1: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 | **give** | gerund |  |  | known charities |  |  | with grown | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to charity=Recipient |
| 2 | **know** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **is** | present | Giving |  |  |  |  | safe *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **give** | gerund | Giving *not said here* |  | a viral plea from a stranger |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to plea=Recipient |

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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:7`.

**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): R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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