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title: Texts about a parcel that could not be delivered are a very common s… — Chain messages, lures and scam messages · tree and pragmatics
description: Texts about a parcel that could not be delivered are a very common scam; adults check deliveries on the official site. Who acts: Texts, 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 pragmati
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# Chain messages, lures and scam messages, sentence 16

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Texts about a parcel that could not be delivered are a very common scam; adults check deliveries on the official site.

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**Who acts:** Texts, adults · **What happens:** not deliver, be, check · **To what, where:** parcel, common scam, deliveries, official site

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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 (Texts, 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:16
# text = Texts about a parcel that could not be delivered are a very common scam; adults check deliveries on the official site.
# 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): no change
1	Texts	text	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
2	about	about	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	parcel	parcel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
5	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
7	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
8	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	delivered	deliver	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl:relcl	_	_
10	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	very	very	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	scam	scam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
16	adults	adult	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
17	check	check	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	parataxis	_	_
18	deliveries	delivery	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
19	on	on	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	official	official	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	site	site	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	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** **deliver** | could · passive |  | a parcel |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **is a** | present | Texts about a parcel | a common scam |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **check** | present | adults | deliveries |  | the official site |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent delivery=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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**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:16`.

**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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