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title: You let a parent answer, or ignore, calls and messages from unknown… — Phones, visiting friends, presents and thank-you… · tree and pragmatics
description: You let a parent answer, or ignore, calls and messages from unknown numbers, because they could be scammers. Who acts: You, parent, messages. 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
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# Phones, visiting friends, presents and thank-you notes, sentence 6

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You let a parent answer, or ignore, calls and messages from unknown numbers, because they could be scammers.

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**Who acts:** You, parent, messages · **What happens:** let, answer, ignore, be · **To what, where:** calls, unknown numbers, scammers

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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 (You, parent, messages), 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:6
# text = You let a parent answer, or ignore, calls and messages from unknown numbers, because they could be scammers.
# 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	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	let	let	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	parent	parent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	answer	answer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	ignore	ignore	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	calls	call	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	messages	message	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
13	from	from	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	unknown	unknown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	numbers	number	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
18	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
19	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	cop	_	_
21	scammers	scammer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	advcl	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **let** | past | You |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **answer** *speech: assert* | infinitive | a parent |  |  |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **ignore** | infinitive | a parent *not said here* | calls and messages |  | unknown numbers |  |  | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent call=Theme |
| 4 | **is a** | could | messages *= message* | scammers |  |  |  |  | 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:222-phones-visits-presents-and-thank-you-notes.lesson:6`.

**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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