--- title: Anyone who asks you to pay them in gift cards, or to read them a gif… — Gift cards and birthday money: making it last · tree and pragmatics description: Anyone who asks you to pay them in gift cards, or to read them a gift card code, is almost certainly a scammer. Who acts: Anyone. 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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 (Anyone), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:415-gift-cards-and-birthday-money.lesson:30 # text = Anyone who asks you to pay them in gift cards, or to read them a gift card code, is almost certainly a scammer. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 415-gift-cards-and-birthday-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, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Anyone anyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 25 nsubj _ _ 2 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 3 nsubj _ _ 3 asks ask VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 acl:relcl _ _ 4 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 3 obj _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 6 mark _ _ 6 pay pay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 xcomp _ _ 7 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:iobj 8 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 gift gift NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 cards card NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 or or CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 13 to to PART TO _ 14 mark _ _ 14 read read VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 conj _ _ 15 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 iobj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:obj 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 17 gift gift NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 compound _ _ 18 card card NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 19 code code NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 21 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 cop _ _ 22 almost almost ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 23 certainly certainly ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 scammer scammer NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 25 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: warn - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: changed act=warn, polarity=neg | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | | | you | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S\_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic | | 2 | **pay** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | | pounds *= pound* | | gift cards | | | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Asset | | 3 | **read** | to-infinitive | | a card code | pounds *= pound* | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient code=Topic | | 4 | **is a** | present | Anyone | a scammer | | | | certainly *property* | tree rules | 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:415-gift-cards-and-birthday-money.lesson:30`. **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, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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/). - ← previous: [Gift cards and birthday money: making…, 29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/415-gift-cards-and-birthday-money/29/) - next →: [«Free V-bucks» and other scams, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/416-free-v-bucks-and-other-scams/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/415-gift-cards-and-birthday-money/)