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title: If you click a scam link by mistake, tell a parent at once; changing… — Staying safe online and checking what you see · tree and pragmatics
description: If you click a scam link by mistake, tell a parent at once; changing passwords quickly can stop the damage. Who acts: you, changing. A sentence of the lesson «Staying safe online and checking what you see» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# Staying safe online and checking what you see, sentence 18

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If you click a scam link by mistake, tell a parent at once; changing passwords quickly can stop the damage.

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**Who acts:** you, changing · **What happens:** click, tell, change, stop · **To what, where:** scam link, parent, passwords, damage · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Staying safe online and checking what you see» 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 (you, changing), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:283-safe-online-and-checking-what-you-see.lesson:18
# text = If you click a scam link by mistake, tell a parent at once; changing passwords quickly can stop the damage.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 283-safe-online-and-checking-what-you-see.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): no change
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	click	click	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	scam	scam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	link	link	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	mistake	mistake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
10	tell	tell	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	parent	parent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	once	once	ADV	RB	_	10	obl	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
16	changing	change	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	20	csubj	_	_
17	passwords	password	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
18	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
19	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	stop	stop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	parataxis	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	damage	damage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	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 | **click** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you | a scam link |  |  |  | by mistake | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location link=Theme |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | imperative | you *not said here* |  | a parent |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent parent=Recipient |
| 3 | **change** | gerund |  | passwords |  |  |  | quickly *property* | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent password=Patient |
| 4 | **stop** | can | changing | the damage |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality damage=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:283-safe-online-and-checking-what-you-see.lesson:18`.

**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): no change. **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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