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title: If a friend's account asks for gift cards or money, talk to the frie… — Chain messages, lures and scam messages · tree and pragmatics
description: If a friend's account asks for gift cards or money, talk to the friend another way, like in person or by phone. Who acts: account, you, friend. 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 20

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If a friend's account asks for gift cards or money, talk to the friend another way, like in person or by phone.

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**Who acts:** account, you, friend · **What happens:** ask, talk, account · **To what, where:** way

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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 (account, you, friend), 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:20
# text = If a friend's account asks for gift cards or money, talk to the friend another way, like in person or by phone.
# 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	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	_
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	account	account	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	asks	ask	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	gift	gift	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	cards	card	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
10	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
13	talk	talk	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	18	det	_	_
18	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl:unmarked	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	like	like	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
23	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	by	by	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	phone	phone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	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 | **ask** *speech: ask* *a condition, not said to happen* | present | a friend's account |  |  |  |  | for gift cards or money | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **talk** | imperative | you *not said here* | another way |  |  |  | to the friend; like person or phone | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to friend=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **account** |  | a friend |  |  |  |  |  | nom account «communication transitive»: poss=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:20`.

**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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