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title: Families can agree a check question or code word to beat «Hi Mum, I'… — Chain messages, lures and scam messages · tree and pragmatics
description: Families can agree a check question or code word to beat «Hi Mum, I've lost my phone» scams. Who acts: Families. 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 27

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Families can agree a check question or code word to beat «Hi Mum, I've lost my phone» scams.

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**Who acts:** Families · **What happens:** agree, beat, lose · **To what, where:** check question, scams, phone · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Families), 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:27
# text = Families can agree a check question or code word to beat «Hi Mum, I've lost my phone» scams.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×2
1	Families	family	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	agree	agree	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	check	check	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	question	question	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	code	code	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	beat	beat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	acl	_	_
12	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=22:punct
13	Hi	hi	INTJ	UH	_	14	discourse	_	_
14	Mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	vocative	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	've	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
19	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	phone	phone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=22:punct
22	scams	scam	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **agree** *speech: agree* | can | Families | a check question or code word |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent question=Topic |
| 2 | **beat** | to-infinitive | Families *not said here* | scams |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location scam=Theme |
| 3 | **lose** *in a quote* | present · perfect | Families *= family* | my phone |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent phone=Eventuality |

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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:27`.

**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): R6-punct-agree ×2. **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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