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title: A stranger who asks you to give first and promises to give more late… — «Free V-bucks» and other scams · tree and pragmatics
description: A stranger who asks you to give first and promises to give more later is almost always tricking you. Who acts: stranger. A sentence of the lesson ««Free V-bucks» and other scams» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# «Free V-bucks» and other scams, sentence 27

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A stranger who asks you to give first and promises to give more later is almost always tricking you.

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**Who acts:** stranger · **What happens:** ask, give, promise, trick · **To what, where:** 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 (stranger), 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:27
# text = A stranger who asks you to give first and promises to give more later is almost always tricking you.
# 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×2
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	stranger	stranger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	asks	ask	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
8	first	first	ADV	RB	NumType=Ord	7	advmod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=7:cc
10	promises	promise	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
13	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	12	advmod	_	_
14	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	12	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:advmod
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
16	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:advmod
17	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	18	advmod	_	_
18	tricking	trick	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
19	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | a stranger |  | you |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S\_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **give** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | a stranger *not said here* |  |  |  |  | first *property* | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **promise** *speech: promise* | present | a stranger *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **give** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | a stranger *not said here* |  |  |  |  | late *property* | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **trick** | present · progressive | a stranger | you |  |  |  | always *property* | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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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**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:416-free-v-bucks-and-other-scams.lesson:27`.

**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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×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/).

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