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title: Pop-ups saying you have won a prize are usually tricks to get inform… — Spending money online without asking · tree and pragmatics
description: Pop-ups saying you have won a prize are usually tricks to get information or install harmful software, such as a virus that damages the computer. Who acts: Pop ups, you, virus. A sentence of the lesson «Spending money online without asking» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its de
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# Spending money online without asking, sentence 18

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Pop-ups saying you have won a prize are usually tricks to get information or install harmful software, such as a virus that damages the computer.

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**Who acts:** Pop ups, you, virus · **What happens:** say, win, be, get, install, damage · **To what, where:** prize, tricks, information, harmful software, computer · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Spending money online without asking» 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 (Pop ups, you, virus), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:362-gems-on-mums-card-fake-ages-and-pop-up-prizes.lesson:18
# text = Pop-ups saying you have won a prize are usually tricks to get information or install harmful software, such as a virus that damages the computer.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 362-gems-on-mums-card-fake-ages-and-pop-up-prizes.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	Pop	pop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	_
3	ups	up	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
4	saying	say	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	acl	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	won	win	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	ccomp	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	prize	prize	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
11	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	tricks	trick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	acl	_	_
15	information	information	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
16	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	install	install	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	_
18	harmful	harmful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	software	software	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
21	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	24	case	_	_
22	as	as	ADP	IN	_	21	fixed	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	virus	virus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
25	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj	_	_
26	damages	damage	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	acl:relcl	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	computer	computer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	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 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | Pop ups *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **win** | present · perfect | you | a prize |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prize=Eventuality |
| 3 | **is a** | present | Pop ups | tricks |  |  |  | usually *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **get** | to-infinitive |  | information |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer information=Stimulus |
| 5 | **install** | infinitive |  | harmful software |  |  |  | such a virus | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent software=Theme |
| 6 | **damage** | present | a virus | the computer |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent computer=Patient |

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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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**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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