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title: Never give a caller a bank card number; a call saying you have won a… — A guest at the table, and manners on the phone · tree and pragmatics
description: Never give a caller a bank card number; a call saying you have won a prize and asking for one is a scam. Who acts: you, call. A sentence of the lesson «A guest at the table, and manners on the phone» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every
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# A guest at the table, and manners on the phone, sentence 16

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Never give a caller a bank card number; a call saying you have won a prize and asking for one is a scam.

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**Who acts:** you, call · **What happens:** not give, say, win, ask, be · **To what, where:** card number, caller, prize, one, scam · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «A guest at the table, and manners on the phone» of the everyday 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 (you, call), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:128-guest-at-the-table-and-the-phone.lesson:16
# text = Never give a caller a bank card number; a call saying you have won a prize and asking for one is a scam.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 128-guest-at-the-table-and-the-phone.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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	2	advmod	_	_
2	give	give	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	caller	caller	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	iobj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:obj
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	bank	bank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:compound
7	card	card	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	call	call	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
12	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	acl	_	_
13	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	won	win	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	12	ccomp	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	prize	prize	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	asking	ask	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	conj	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
21	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	obl	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=19:obl|HaikuPos=PRON:NN:Number=Sing|PronType=Ind
22	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	scam	scam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: warn
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: changed act=warn, polarity=neg

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **give** | imperative | you *not said here* | a card number | a caller |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent caller=Recipient number=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | a call *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **win** | present · perfect | you | a prize |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prize=Eventuality |
| 4 | **ask** *speech: ask* | gerund | a call *not said here* | one |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is a** | present | a call | a scam |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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:everyday:128-guest-at-the-table-and-the-phone.lesson:16`.

**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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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