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title: Real officials do not demand money by surprise phone calls; give the… — Chain messages, lures and scam messages · tree and pragmatics
description: Real officials do not demand money by surprise phone calls; give the phone to a parent. Who acts: Real officials. 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 24

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Real officials do not demand money by surprise phone calls; give the phone to a parent.

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**Who acts:** Real officials · **What happens:** not demand, give · **To what, where:** money, phone, parent

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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 (Real officials), 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:24
# text = Real officials do not demand money by surprise phone calls; give the phone to a parent.
# 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	officials	official	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	demand	demand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	surprise	surprise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
9	phone	phone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	calls	call	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
12	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	phone	phone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	parent	parent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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** **demand** *speech: request* | present · do-support | Real officials | money |  |  |  | by surprise phone calls | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme money=Precondition |
| 2 | **give** | infinitive |  | the phone | a parent |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent phone=Theme to parent=Recipient |

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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:24`.

**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/).

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