--- title: A girl in Florida answered a call from an unknown number and told th… — Phones, visiting friends, presents and thank-you… · tree and pragmatics description: A girl in Florida answered a call from an unknown number and told the caller her parents were away; the caller was a scammer, and the family had to change all their bank details. Who acts: girl, parents, caller, family. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, parents, caller, family), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:222-phones-visits-presents-and-thank-you-notes.lesson:17 # text = A girl in Florida answered a call from an unknown number and told the caller her parents were away; the caller was a scammer, and the family had to change all their bank details. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 222-phones-visits-presents-and-thank-you-notes.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 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Florida Florida PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 answered answer VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 call call NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 from from ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 9 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 unknown unknown ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 number number NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 caller caller NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 16 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 parents parent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nsubj _ _ 18 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 cop _ _ 19 away away ADV RB _ 13 ccomp _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 caller caller NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 23 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 cop _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 scammer scammer NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 parataxis _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 30 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 conj _ _ 31 to to PART TO _ 32 mark _ _ 32 change change VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 30 xcomp _ _ 33 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 36 det:predet _ _ 34 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 36 nmod:poss _ _ 35 bank bank NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 compound _ _ 36 details detail NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 obj _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | a girl in Florida | a call | | a unknown number | | | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent call=Eventuality | | 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | a girl in Florida *not said here* | the caller | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent caller=Recipient | | 3 | **is** | past | girl's parents | | | | | away *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **is a** | past | the caller | a scammer | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **have** | past | the family | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **change** | to-infinitive | the family *not said here* | scammers's bank details | | | | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent detail=Patient | | 7 | **detail** | | scammers *= scammer* | | | | | | nom detail «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | 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:everyday:222-phones-visits-presents-and-thank-you-notes.lesson:17`. **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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