--- title: Real police do not ask for payment by message or phone; «pay or be a… — Staying safe online and checking what you see · tree and pragmatics description: Real police do not ask for payment by message or phone; «pay or be arrested» messages are scare scams. Who acts: Real police, messages, message. 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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 police, messages, message), 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:19 # text = Real police do not ask for payment by message or phone; «pay or be arrested» messages are scare scams. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1 1 Real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 police police NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 3 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 4 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 5 advmod _ _ 5 ask ask VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 6 for for ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 payment payment NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 8 by by ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 message message NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 10 or or CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 phone phone NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 conj _ _ 12 ; ; PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 « « PUNCT `` _ 14 punct _ _ 14 pay pay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ _ 15 or or CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 16 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 17 aux:pass _ _ 17 arrested arrest VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 14 conj _ _ 18 » » PUNCT '' _ 14 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=22:punct 19 messages message NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nsubj _ _ 20 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 21 scare scare NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 compound _ _ 22 scams scam NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 parataxis _ _ 23 . . PUNCT . _ 5 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 · do-support | Real police | | | | | for payment by message or phone | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **pay** *in a quote* | infinitive | Real police *not said here* | | | | | | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **arrest** *in a quote* | infinitive · passive | Real police *not said here* | | | | | | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP» | | 4 | **is a** | present | messages | scare scams | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **pay** | | message or phone | | | | | | nom payment «possession transitive»: by=agent | 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:283-safe-online-and-checking-what-you-see.lesson:19`. **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 ×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: [Staying safe online and checking what…, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/283-safe-online-and-checking-what-you-see/18/) - next →: [Staying safe online and checking what…, 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/283-safe-online-and-checking-what-you-see/20/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/283-safe-online-and-checking-what-you-see/)