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title: Scammers copy real logos, pretend to be banks, parcel companies, the… — Chain messages, lures and scam messages · tree and pragmatics
description: Scammers copy real logos, pretend to be banks, parcel companies, the government, famous YouTubers or even your friends, and they almost always try to make you hurry or feel scared. Who acts: Scammers, you. A sentence of the lesson «Chain messages, lures and scam messages» of the everyday course of M
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# Chain messages, lures and scam messages, sentence 1

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Scammers copy real logos, pretend to be banks, parcel companies, the government, famous YouTubers or even your friends, and they almost always try to make you hurry or feel scared.

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**Who acts:** Scammers, you · **What happens:** copy, pretend, be, try, make, hurry · **To what, where:** real logos, banks, you

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Chain messages, lures and scam messages» 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, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:282-chain-messages-lures-and-scam-messages.lesson:1
# text = Scammers copy real logos, pretend to be banks, parcel companies, the government, famous YouTubers or even your friends, and they almost always try to make you hurry or feel scared.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 282-chain-messages-lures-and-scam-messages.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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2
1	Scammers	scammer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	copy	copy	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	logos	logo	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=9:punct
6	pretend	pretend	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
8	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	cop	_	_
9	banks	bank	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	xcomp	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	parcel	parcel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	companies	company	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:appos
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	famous	famous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	YouTubers	youtuber	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur
19	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	even	even	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
21	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
25	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
26	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	28	advmod	_	_
28	try	try	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:parataxis|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	xcomp	_	_
31	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	30	obj	_	_
32	hurry	hurry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	xcomp	_	_
33	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	feel	feel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	conj	_	_
35	scared	scared	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	xcomp	_	_
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **copy** | present | Scammers | real logos and famous YouTubers or your friends |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent logo=Theme |
| 2 | **pretend** | present | Scammers *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | to-infinitive | Scammers *not said here* | banks and parcel companies and the government |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **try** | present | Scammers *= scammer* |  |  |  |  | always *property* | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 5 | **make** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Scammers *= scammer* *not said here* | you |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **hurry** *not said to happen* | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **feel** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | scared *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=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:282-chain-messages-lures-and-scam-messages.lesson:1`.

**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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-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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