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title: Messages promising free prizes for card numbers or passwords are sca… — Taking care of your things and money · tree and pragmatics
description: Messages promising free prizes for card numbers or passwords are scams that steal money. Who acts: Messages, scams. A sentence of the lesson «Taking care of your things and money» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Taking care of your things and money, sentence 24

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Messages promising free prizes for card numbers or passwords are scams that steal money.

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**Who acts:** Messages, scams · **What happens:** promise, be, steal · **To what, where:** free prizes, scams, money

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Taking care of your things and money» 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 (Messages, scams), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:037-things-and-money.lesson:24
# text = Messages promising free prizes for card numbers or passwords are scams that steal money.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 037-things-and-money.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): R6-punct-agree ×1
1	Messages	message	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
2	promising	promise	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	1	acl	_	_
3	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	prizes	prize	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	card	card	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	numbers	number	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
8	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	passwords	password	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
10	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	scams	scam	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
12	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
13	steal	steal	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
14	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=1:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: changed polarity=neg

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **promise** *speech: promise* | gerund | Messages *not said here* | free prizes |  |  |  | for card numbers or passwords *goal* | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent prize=Theme for number=Goal |
| 2 | **is a** | present | Messages | scams |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **steal** | present | scams | money |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location money=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:037-things-and-money.lesson:24`.

**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): R6-punct-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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