--- title: Real businesses never ask to be paid with gift cards; scammers like… — Chain messages, lures and scam messages · tree and pragmatics description: Real businesses never ask to be paid with gift cards; scammers like them because they cannot be traced or refunded. Who acts: Real businesses, scammers. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Real businesses, scammers), 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:19 # text = Real businesses never ask to be paid with gift cards; scammers like them because they cannot be traced or refunded. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 businesses business NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 3 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 4 advmod _ _ 4 ask ask VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 6 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 7 aux:pass _ _ 7 paid pay VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 xcomp _ _ 8 with with ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 gift gift NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 cards card NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl _ _ 11 ; ; PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 scammers scammer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nsubj _ _ 13 like like VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 14 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 obj _ _ 15 because because SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 16 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj:pass _ _ 17 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 18 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 20 advmod _ _ 19 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 20 aux:pass _ _ 20 traced trace VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 13 advcl _ _ 21 or or CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 refunded refund VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 20 conj _ _ 23 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **ask** *speech: ask* | present | Real businesses | | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **pay** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive · passive | Real businesses *not said here* | | | | | with gift cards | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP» | | 3 | **like** | present | scammers | businesses *= business* | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot they=Theme | | 4 | **not** **trace** | can · passive | | Scammers *= scammer* | | | | | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 5 | **refund** | participle | | | | | | | vn give-13.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent | 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. **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:19`. **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): R7-rel-agree ×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/). - ← previous: [Chain messages, lures and scam messages, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/282-chain-messages-lures-and-scam-messages/18/) - next →: [Chain messages, lures and scam messages, 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/282-chain-messages-lures-and-scam-messages/20/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/282-chain-messages-lures-and-scam-messages/)