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title: Scammers pretend to be famous YouTubers and footballers giving thing… — Chain messages, lures and scam messages · tree and pragmatics
description: Scammers pretend to be famous YouTubers and footballers giving things away; check their real, official account and never send a fee. Who acts: Scammers, famous YouTubers. A sentence of the lesson «Chain messages, lures and scam messages» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its depen
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# Chain messages, lures and scam messages, sentence 25

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Scammers pretend to be famous YouTubers and footballers giving things away; check their real, official account and never send a fee.

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**Who acts:** Scammers, famous YouTubers · **What happens:** pretend, be, give away, check, not send, account · **To what, where:** famous YouTubers, things, real official account, fee

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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 (Scammers, famous YouTubers), 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:25
# text = Scammers pretend to be famous YouTubers and footballers giving things away; check their real, official account and never send a fee.
# 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	Scammers	scammer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	pretend	pretend	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	cop	_	_
5	famous	famous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	YouTubers	youtuber	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	footballers	footballer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
9	giving	give	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	acl	_	_
10	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
11	away	away	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
13	check	check	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
14	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
15	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
17	official	official	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	account	account	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
21	send	send	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	fee	fee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **pretend** | present | Scammers |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | to-infinitive | Scammers *not said here* | famous YouTubers and footballers |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **give away** | gerund | famous YouTubers and footballers *not said here* | things |  |  |  | away *property* | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent thing=Theme |
| 4 | **check** | infinitive |  | Scammers's real official account |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent account=Theme |
| 5 | **not** **send** | infinitive |  | a fee |  |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fee=Theme |
| 6 | **account** |  | Scammers *= scammer* |  |  |  |  |  | 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:25`.

**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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