--- title: If an offer sounds too good to be true, it almost always is. — Too-good-to-be-true offers, online scams and che… · tree and pragmatics description: If an offer sounds too good to be true, it almost always is. Who acts: offer. A sentence of the lesson «Too-good-to-be-true offers, online scams and checking the news» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/314-too-good-offers-scams-and-checking-news/0/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Too-good-to-be-true offers, online sca…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/314-too-good-offers-scams-and-checking-news/) / 0 # Too-good-to-be-true offers, online scams and checking the news, sentence 0 If an offer sounds too good to be true, it almost always is. **Who acts:** offer · **What happens:** sound, be This is a sentence of the lesson «Too-good-to-be-true offers, online scams and checking the news» 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 (offer), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:314-too-good-offers-scams-and-checking-news.lesson:0 # text = If an offer sounds too good to be true, it almost always is. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 314-too-good-offers-scams-and-checking-news.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 If if SCONJ IN _ 4 mark _ _ 2 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 offer offer NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 sounds sound VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root 5 too too ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 xcomp _ _ 7 to to PART TO _ 9 mark _ _ 8 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 9 cop _ _ 9 true true ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 advcl _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=4:punct 11 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 12 almost almost ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 13 always always ADV RB PronType=Tot 14 advmod _ _ 14 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:conj 15 . . PUNCT . _ 14 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sound** | present | a offer | | | | | good *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 2 | **is** | to-infinitive | a offer *not said here* | | | | | true *property* | tree rules | 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:314-too-good-offers-scams-and-checking-news.lesson:0`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, 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: [Kind jokes, teasing, pranks, April Foo…, 25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/313-kind-jokes-pranks-april-fools-and-adverts/25/) - next →: [Too-good-to-be-true offers, online sca…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/314-too-good-offers-scams-and-checking-news/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/314-too-good-offers-scams-and-checking-news/)