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title: Scam texts about parcels, prizes and unpaid bills trick many people… — Chain messages, lures and scam messages · tree and pragmatics
description: Scam texts about parcels, prizes and unpaid bills trick many people every year into giving away card details. Who acts: Scam texts. 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 
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# Chain messages, lures and scam messages, sentence 30

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Scam texts about parcels, prizes and unpaid bills trick many people every year into giving away card details.

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**Who acts:** Scam texts · **What happens:** trick, give away · **To what, where:** many people, card details

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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 (Scam texts), 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:30
# text = Scam texts about parcels, prizes and unpaid bills trick many people every year into giving away card details.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Scam	scam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	texts	text	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
3	about	about	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	parcels	parcel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	prizes	prize	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:conj
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	unpaid	unpaid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	bills	bill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
10	trick	trick	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
13	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	14	det	_	_
14	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl:unmarked	_	_
15	into	into	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
16	giving	give	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
17	away	away	ADV	RB	_	16	compound:prt	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:advmod
18	card	card	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	details	detail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **trick** | present | Scam texts about parcels and prizes and unpaid bills | many people |  |  | year |  | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Patient |
| 2 | **give away** | gerund | Scam texts about parcels and prizes and unpaid bills *not said here* | card details |  |  |  |  | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent detail=Theme |

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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:30`.

**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): R5-strong ×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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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