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title: That evening Noah and his dad made a scam checklist and stuck it on… — «Free V-bucks» and other scams · tree and pragmatics
description: That evening Noah and his dad made a scam checklist and stuck it on the fridge: it asks for a password or a code; it is too good to be true; it rushes you; it wants you to keep it secret. Who acts: Noah, checklist, you. A sentence of the lesson ««Free V-bucks» and other scams» of the everyday course
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# «Free V-bucks» and other scams, sentence 20

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That evening Noah and his dad made a scam checklist and stuck it on the fridge: it asks for a password or a code; it is too good to be true; it rushes you; it wants you to keep it secret.

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**Who acts:** Noah, checklist, you · **What happens:** make, stick, ask, be, rush, want · **To what, where:** scam checklist, checklist, fridge, you

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This is a sentence of the lesson ««Free V-bucks» and other scams» 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 (Noah, checklist, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:416-free-v-bucks-and-other-scams.lesson:20
# text = That evening Noah and his dad made a scam checklist and stuck it on the fridge: it asks for a password or a code; it is too good to be true; it rushes you; it wants you to keep it secret.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 416-free-v-bucks-and-other-scams.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	That	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	Noah	Noah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	dad	dad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
7	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	scam	scam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	checklist	checklist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	stuck	stick	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	fridge	fridge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
17	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	asks	ask	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	password	password	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
23	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	code	code	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	_
26	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	30	punct	_	_
27	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
28	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
29	too	too	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
31	to	to	PART	TO	_	33	mark	_	_
32	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	cop	_	_
33	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	advcl	_	_
34	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	36	punct	_	_
35	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
36	rushes	rush	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	conj	_	_
37	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	36	obj	_	_
38	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	40	punct	_	_
39	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	nsubj	_	_
40	wants	want	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	36	conj	_	_
41	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	40	obj	_	_
42	to	to	PART	TO	_	43	mark	_	_
43	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	40	xcomp	_	_
44	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	obj	_	_
45	secret	secret	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	xcomp	_	_
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | Noah and hacker's dad | a scam checklist |  |  | evening |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent checklist=Product |
| 2 | **stick** | past | Noah and hacker's dad *not said here* | checklist |  | the fridge |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme on fridge=Destination |
| 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | checklist |  |  |  |  | for a password or a code | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** | present | checklist |  |  |  |  | good *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **is** | to-infinitive | checklist *not said here* |  |  |  |  | true *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **rush** | present | checklist | you |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location you=Theme |
| 7 | **want** | present | checklist | you |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **keep** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | checklist |  |  |  | secret *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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**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.

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