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title: Scammers copy real things with tiny changes: a fake celebrity accoun… — Too-good-to-be-true offers, online scams and che… · tree and pragmatics
description: Scammers copy real things with tiny changes: a fake celebrity account with a similar name, or a web address like «amaz0n» with a zero instead of an «o». Who acts: Scammers. A sentence of the lesson «Too-good-to-be-true offers, online scams and checking the news» of the everyday course of Mova's prim
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# Too-good-to-be-true offers, online scams and checking the news, sentence 4

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Scammers copy real things with tiny changes: a fake celebrity account with a similar name, or a web address like «amaz0n» with a zero instead of an «o».

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**Who acts:** Scammers · **What happens:** copy · **To what, where:** real things

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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 (Scammers), 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:4
# text = Scammers copy real things with tiny changes: a fake celebrity account with a similar name, or a web address like «amaz0n» with a zero instead of an «o».
# 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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Scammers	scammer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	copy	copy	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	changes	change	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:nmod
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	fake	fake	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	celebrity	celebrity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	account	account	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	similar	similar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=12:punct
18	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	web	web	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	address	address	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
22	like	like	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	_
24	amaz0n	amaz0n	X	GW	_	21	nmod	_	_
25	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	24	punct	_	_
26	with	with	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	zero	zero	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:obl
29	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADP	28	advmod	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	fixed	_	_
31	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	33	punct	_	_
33	o	o	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
34	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	33	punct	_	_
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **copy** | present | Scammers | real things |  |  |  | with tiny changes; a fake celebrity account with a similar name or a web address like amaz0n with a zero  a o *obl* | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=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:4`.

**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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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