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title: You never send a gift card or money to someone online; scammers ask… — Pocket money, saving and spending · tree and pragmatics
description: You never send a gift card or money to someone online; scammers ask for gift cards because they cannot be traced (nobody can follow where the money went). Who acts: You, scammers, nobody, money. A sentence of the lesson «Pocket money, saving and spending» of the everyday course of Mova's primary sch
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# Pocket money, saving and spending, sentence 14

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You never send a gift card or money to someone online; scammers ask for gift cards because they cannot be traced (nobody can follow where the money went).

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**Who acts:** You, scammers, nobody, money · **What happens:** not send, ask, not trace, follow, go · **To what, where:** gift card, someone, card

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Pocket money, saving and spending» 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, scammers, nobody, money), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:261-pocket-money-saving-and-spending.lesson:14
# text = You never send a gift card or money to someone online; scammers ask for gift cards because they cannot be traced (nobody can follow where the money went).
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 261-pocket-money-saving-and-spending.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 ×2
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	3	advmod	_	_
3	send	send	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	gift	gift	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	card	card	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	3	obl	_	_
11	online	online	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	scammers	scammer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
14	ask	ask	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	gift	gift	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	cards	card	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
18	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
19	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
21	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	23	advmod	_	_
22	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	traced	trace	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:advcl
24	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	27	punct	_	_
25	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	27	nsubj	_	_
26	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	follow	follow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:advcl
28	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	31	advmod	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
31	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	advcl	_	_
32	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	27	punct	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **not** **send** | infinitive | You | a gift card or money | someone |  |  | online *property* | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent card=Theme to someone=Destination |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | scammers |  |  |  |  | for gift cards | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **not** **trace** | can · passive |  | card |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **follow** | can | nobody |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **go** | past | the money |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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**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 ×2. **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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