--- title: Real businesses never ask to be paid with gift cards, real computers… — Chain messages, lures and scam messages · tree and pragmatics description: Real businesses never ask to be paid with gift cards, real computers do not warn you through web pop-ups with phone numbers, and real officials do not demand money by surprise calls. Who acts: Real businesses, real computers, real officials. 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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, real computers, 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:3 # text = Real businesses never ask to be paid with gift cards, real computers do not warn you through web pop-ups with phone numbers, and real officials do not demand money by surprise calls. # 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): R1-cc-next ×1, 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|Number=Plur|Person=3|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 , _ 16 punct _ _ 12 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 computers computer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nsubj _ _ 14 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 15 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 16 advmod _ _ 16 warn warn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 parataxis _ _ 17 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 16 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:iobj 18 through through ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 19 web web NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 compound _ _ 20 pop pop NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 compound _ _ 21 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 22 punct _ _ 22 ups up NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obl _ _ 23 with with ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 phone phone NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 compound _ _ 25 numbers number NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nmod _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=16:cc 28 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 officials official NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 nsubj _ _ 30 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ _ 31 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 32 advmod _ _ 32 demand demand VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 conj _ _ 33 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ _ 34 by by ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 surprise surprise NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 compound _ _ 36 calls call NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 obl _ _ 37 . . 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 | **not** **warn** *speech: warn* | present · do-support | real computers | | you | web pop ups with phone numbers | | | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | | 4 | **not** **demand** *speech: request* | present · do-support | real officials | money | | | | by surprise calls | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme money=Precondition | 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:3`. **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): R1-cc-next ×1, 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. 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