--- title: An offer that sounds too good to be true usually is: quick money for… — Harmful pranks, April Fools' tricks, hidden adve… · tree and pragmatics description: An offer that sounds too good to be true usually is: quick money for no work, famous trainers for a tiny price on a strange website, or a stranger offering sweets or a puppy if you come with them. Who acts: offer, stranger, you. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (offer, stranger, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:334-pranks-april-fools-adverts-and-too-good-offers.lesson:10 # text = An offer that sounds too good to be true usually is: quick money for no work, famous trainers for a tiny price on a strange website, or a stranger offering sweets or a puppy if you come with them. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 334-pranks-april-fools-adverts-and-too-good-offers.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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 An a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 offer offer NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 3 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 4 nsubj _ _ 4 sounds sound VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 acl:relcl _ _ 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 4 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:advcl 10 usually usually ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 11 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 cop _ _ 12 : : PUNCT : _ 14 punct _ _ 13 quick quick ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 15 for for ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 17 det _ _ 17 work work NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 famous famous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 trainers trainer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 conj _ _ 21 for for ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 price price NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nmod _ _ 25 on on ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 27 strange strange ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 website website NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nmod _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 30 or or CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=34:det 32 stranger stranger NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 compound _ _ 33 offering offer VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 32 acl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=34:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 34 sweets sweet NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 conj _ _ 35 or or CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 36 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 puppy puppy NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 conj _ _ 38 if if SCONJ IN _ 40 mark _ _ 39 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 40 nsubj _ _ 40 come come VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 advcl _ _ 41 with with ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 42 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 obl _ _ 43 . . PUNCT . _ 14 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=40:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | 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 | | 3 | **is a** | present | a offer | quick money and famous trainers for a tiny price on a strange website or stranger sweets or a puppy | | | | for no work; usually *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **offer** | gerund | a stranger *not said here* | | | | | | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **come** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you | | | | | with sweets *= sweet* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:334-pranks-april-fools-adverts-and-too-good-offers.lesson:10`. **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, 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. 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