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title: If a number you do not know calls or messages you, let a parent answ… — Phone calls, visiting, thank-you notes, interrup… · tree and pragmatics
description: If a number you do not know calls or messages you, let a parent answer or ignore it, because unknown callers can be scammers. Who acts: you, number, unknown callers. A sentence of the lesson «Phone calls, visiting, thank-you notes, interrupting and quiet places» of the everyday course of Mova's prim
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# Phone calls, visiting, thank-you notes, interrupting and quiet places, sentence 11

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If a number you do not know calls or messages you, let a parent answer or ignore it, because unknown callers can be scammers.

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**Who acts:** you, number, unknown callers · **What happens:** not know, call, message, let, answer, ignore · **To what, where:** number, you, scammers · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Phone calls, visiting, thank-you notes, interrupting and quiet places» 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, number, unknown callers), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:297-calls-visits-thank-yous-and-quiet-places.lesson:11
# text = If a number you do not know calls or messages you, let a parent answer or ignore it, because unknown callers can be scammers.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 297-calls-visits-thank-yous-and-quiet-places.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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
5	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
8	calls	call	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
9	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	messages	message	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
13	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:det
15	parent	parent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	answer	answer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
17	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	ignore	ignore	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:conj
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
21	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
22	unknown	unknown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	callers	caller	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	_
24	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
25	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	cop	_	_
26	scammers	scammer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	advcl	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	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 | **not** **know** | present · do-support | you | a number *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer number=Stimulus |
| 2 | **call** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | a number |  |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **message** | present | a number *not said here* | you |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **let** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **answer** *speech: assert* | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **ignore** | infinitive | you *not said here* | number |  |  |  |  | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 7 | **is a** | can | unknown callers | scammers |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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:297-calls-visits-thank-yous-and-quiet-places.lesson:11`.

**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 ×2, 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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