--- title: The same tricks work in real life: a stranger offering sweets or a p… — Chain messages, lures and scam messages · tree and pragmatics description: The same tricks work in real life: a stranger offering sweets or a puppy to come with them is a known way to lure children. Who acts: same tricks, stranger. 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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 (same tricks, stranger), 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:7 # text = The same tricks work in real life: a stranger offering sweets or a puppy to come with them is a known way to lure children. # 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 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 tricks trick NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 4 work work VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 8 : : PUNCT : _ 4 punct _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:det 10 stranger stranger NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 11 offering offer VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 10 acl _ _ 12 sweets sweet NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obj _ _ 13 or or CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 puppy puppy NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 conj _ _ 16 to to PART TO _ 17 mark _ _ 17 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 acl _ _ 18 with with ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 obl _ _ 20 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 cop _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 known know VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 23 amod _ _ 23 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 parataxis _ _ 24 to to PART TO _ 25 mark _ _ 25 lure lure VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 acl _ _ 26 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obj _ _ 27 . . 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 | **work** | present | the same tricks | | | | | in real life | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in life=Theme | | 2 | **offer** | gerund | a stranger *not said here* | sweets or a puppy | | | | | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent sweet=Theme | | 3 | **come** | to-infinitive | a stranger *not said here* | | | | | with sweets *= sweet* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **know** | participle | | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **is a** | present | a stranger | a known way | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **lure** | to-infinitive | the same tricks *not said here* | children | | | | | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient | 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:7`. **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. **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/). - ← previous: [Chain messages, lures and scam messages, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/282-chain-messages-lures-and-scam-messages/6/) - next →: [Chain messages, lures and scam messages, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/282-chain-messages-lures-and-scam-messages/8/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/282-chain-messages-lures-and-scam-messages/)