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title: A price that is far too low on an unknown site often means a fake sh… — Too-good-to-be-true offers, online scams and che… · tree and pragmatics
description: A price that is far too low on an unknown site often means a fake shop. Who acts: price. 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.
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# Too-good-to-be-true offers, online scams and checking the news, sentence 25

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A price that is far too low on an unknown site often means a fake shop.

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**Who acts:** price · **What happens:** be, mean · **To what, where:** unknown site, fake shop

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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 (price), 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:25
# text = A price that is far too low on an unknown site often means a fake shop.
# 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): no change
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	price	price	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
3	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	7	advmod	_	_
6	too	too	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	low	low	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	acl:relcl	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	unknown	unknown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	site	site	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
12	often	often	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	fake	fake	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	shop	shop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | a price |  |  | a unknown site |  | far, low *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **mean** | present | a price | a fake shop |  |  |  | often *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shop=Topic |

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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:25`.

**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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