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title: Scammers phone children to find out when a house is empty or to get… — Phones, visiting friends, presents and thank-you… · tree and pragmatics
description: Scammers phone children to find out when a house is empty or to get money and passwords. Who acts: Scammers, house. A sentence of the lesson «Phones, visiting friends, presents and thank-you notes» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
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# Phones, visiting friends, presents and thank-you notes, sentence 19

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Scammers phone children to find out when a house is empty or to get money and passwords.

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**Who acts:** Scammers, house · **What happens:** find out, be, get · **To what, where:** phone children, money

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Phones, visiting friends, presents and thank-you notes» 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 (Scammers, house), 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:19
# text = Scammers phone children to find out when a house is empty or to get money and passwords.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Scammers	scammer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
2	phone	phone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	find	find	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	out	out	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	11	advmod	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	empty	empty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:parataxis
12	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
15	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	passwords	password	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find out** | to-infinitive | Scammers | phone children |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Topic |
| 2 | **is** | present | a house |  |  |  |  | empty *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **get** | to-infinitive | a house *not said here* | money and passwords |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer money=Stimulus |

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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:222-phones-visits-presents-and-thank-you-notes.lesson:19`.

**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 ×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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