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title: A message pretending to be a bank is a scam that can make real peopl… — Who you are: being wrong and learning · tree and pragmatics
description: A message pretending to be a bank is a scam that can make real people lose money, so you refuse to write one. Who acts: message, scam, real people, you. A sentence of the lesson «Who you are: being wrong and learning» of the ai course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# Who you are: being wrong and learning, sentence 15

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A message pretending to be a bank is a scam that can make real people lose money, so you refuse to write one.

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**Who acts:** message, scam, real people, you · **What happens:** pretend, be, make, lose, refuse, not write · **To what, where:** bank, scam, money, one

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Who you are: being wrong and learning» 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 (message, scam, real people, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:ai:029-who-you-are-being-wrong-and-learning.lesson:15
# text = A message pretending to be a bank is a scam that can make real people lose money, so you refuse to write one.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = ai
# lesson = 029-who-you-are-being-wrong-and-learning.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	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	message	message	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
3	pretending	pretend	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	cop	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	bank	bank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	xcomp	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	scam	scam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
11	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
12	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	acl:relcl	_	_
14	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
16	lose	lose	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	ccomp	_	_
17	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	so	so	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
20	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	refuse	refuse	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	write	write	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	xcomp	_	_
24	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	obj	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **pretend** | gerund | a message *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | to-infinitive | a message *not said here* | a bank |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | present | a message | a scam |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **make** | can | a scam |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **lose** | present | real people | money |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Eventuality |
| 6 | **refuse** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 7 | **not** **write** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | one |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme |

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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:029-who-you-are-being-wrong-and-learning.lesson:15`.

**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.

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

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