--- title: "Social engineering" means tricking people into giving away secrets… — Soft words for hard things: crime, prison and th… · tree and pragmatics description: "Social engineering" means tricking people into giving away secrets such as passwords. Who acts: Social engineering. A sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: crime, prison and the police and lying and honesty» of the euphemisms course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree an --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/28-stealing-and-lying/13/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Euphemisms](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/) / [Soft words for hard things: crime, pri…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/28-stealing-and-lying/) / 13 # Soft words for hard things: crime, prison and the police and lying and honesty, sentence 13 "Social engineering" means tricking people into giving away secrets such as passwords. **Who acts:** Social engineering · **What happens:** mean, trick, give away · **To what, where:** people, secrets This is a sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: crime, prison and the police and lying and honesty» of the euphemisms 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 (Social engineering), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:euphemisms:028-stealing-and-lying.lesson:13 # text = "Social engineering" means tricking people into giving away secrets such as passwords. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = euphemisms # lesson = 028-stealing-and-lying.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 ×3 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ _ 2 Social social ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 engineering engineering NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 4 " " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ 5 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 tricking trick VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 5 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:ccomp 7 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ _ 8 into into SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 9 giving give VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 6 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:obl 10 away away ADP RP _ 9 compound:prt _ _ 11 secrets secret NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obj _ _ 12 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP 14 case _ _ 13 as as ADP IN _ 12 fixed _ _ 14 passwords password NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nmod _ _ 15 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present | Social engineering | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **trick** *not said to happen* | gerund | Social engineering *not said here* | people | | | | | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Patient | | 3 | **give away** | gerund | Social engineering *not said here* | secrets | | | | such passwords | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent secret=Theme | 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:euphemisms:028-stealing-and-lying.lesson:13`. **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 ×3. **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: [Soft words for hard things: crime, pri…, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/28-stealing-and-lying/12/) - next →: [Soft words for hard things: crime, pri…, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/28-stealing-and-lying/14/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/28-stealing-and-lying/)