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title: It was reported that scammers used a deepfake video call, pretending… — In the news: jobs, art and copying, children's s… · tree and pragmatics
description: It was reported that scammers used a deepfake video call, pretending to be a company boss, to get an employee to send a huge amount of money. Who acts: scammers, employee. A sentence of the lesson «In the news: jobs, art and copying, children's safety» of the ai course of Mova's primary school with 
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# In the news: jobs, art and copying, children's safety, sentence 17

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It was reported that scammers used a deepfake video call, pretending to be a company boss, to get an employee to send a huge amount of money.

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**Who acts:** scammers, employee · **What happens:** report, use, pretend, be, get, send · **To what, where:** company, deepfake video call, company boss, employee, huge amount, money

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This is a sentence of the lesson «In the news: jobs, art and copying, children's safety» 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, employee), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:ai:022-news-jobs-art-safety.lesson:17
# text = It was reported that scammers used a deepfake video call, pretending to be a company boss, to get an employee to send a huge amount of money.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = ai
# lesson = 022-news-jobs-art-safety.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): no change
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	used	use	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	deepfake	deepfake	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	video	video	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	call	call	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	pretending	pretend	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
14	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	cop	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	company	company	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	boss	boss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	xcomp	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
21	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	employee	employee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	send	send	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	amount	amount	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
30	.	.	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 |  | company |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: subject=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 2 | **use** | past | scammers | a deepfake video call |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent call=Patient |
| 3 | **pretend** | gerund | scammers *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is a** | to-infinitive | scammers *not said here* | a company boss |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **get** | to-infinitive | scammers *not said here* | a employee |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **send** | to-infinitive | a employee *not said here* | a huge amount of money |  |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent amount=Theme |
| 7 | **amount** |  |  | money |  |  |  |  | nom amount «possession transitive»: of=patient |

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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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**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): no change. **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.

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