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title: The most dangerous trick of all is a stranger offering sweets, a pup… — Too-good-to-be-true offers, online scams and che… · tree and pragmatics
description: The most dangerous trick of all is a stranger offering sweets, a puppy or a treat to get a child to come with them. Who acts: dangerous trick, stranger, child. 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 wi
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# Too-good-to-be-true offers, online scams and checking the news, sentence 2

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The most dangerous trick of all is a stranger offering sweets, a puppy or a treat to get a child to come with them.

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**Who acts:** dangerous trick, stranger, child · **What happens:** be, offering, get, come · **To what, where:** stranger, sweets, child

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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 (dangerous trick, stranger, child), 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:2
# text = The most dangerous trick of all is a stranger offering sweets, a puppy or a treat to get a child to come with them.
# 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	3	advmod	_	_
3	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	trick	trick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
6	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	nmod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:nmod|HaikuPos=PRON:DT:PronType=Tot
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	stranger	stranger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
10	offering	offering	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	acl	_	_
11	sweets	sweet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	puppy	puppy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
15	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=11:cc
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	treat	treat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	acl	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	xcomp	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obl	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **is a** | present | the dangerous trick  all | a stranger |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **offering** | gerund | a stranger *not said here* | sweets and a puppy or a treat |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **get** | to-infinitive | a stranger *not said here* | a child |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **come** | to-infinitive | a child *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with tricks *= trick* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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:314-too-good-offers-scams-and-checking-news.lesson:2`.

**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): R1-cc-next ×1, R8-pos-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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