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title: Don't reply or send anything, and tell a trusted adult straight away… — Chain messages, lures and scam messages · tree and pragmatics
description: Don't reply or send anything, and tell a trusted adult straight away; adults and the police can help. Who acts: you, adults. A sentence of the lesson «Chain messages, lures and scam messages» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Chain messages, lures and scam messages, sentence 10

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Don't reply or send anything, and tell a trusted adult straight away; adults and the police can help.

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**Who acts:** you, adults · **What happens:** not reply, send, tell, trust, help · **To what, where:** anything, trusted adult · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (you, adults), 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:10
# text = Don't reply or send anything, and tell a trusted adult straight away; adults and the police can help.
# 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): R1-cc-next ×1
1	Do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
2	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	3	advmod	_	_
3	reply	reply	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	send	send	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
6	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	5	obj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	tell	tell	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	trusted	trust	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	amod	_	_
12	adult	adult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	away	away	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	adults	adult	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=16:cc
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	police	police	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	_
20	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed form=imp

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **reply** *speech: assert* | imperative · do-support | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **send** | infinitive | you *not said here* | anything |  |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Theme |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive | you *not said here* |  | a trusted adult |  |  | away *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient |
| 4 | **trust** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **help** | can | adults and the police |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |

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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:10`.

**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): R1-cc-next ×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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