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title: Codes and currency sold cheaply by other kids or strangers are often… — «Free V-bucks» and other scams · tree and pragmatics
description: Codes and currency sold cheaply by other kids or strangers are often stolen or fake; only official shops are safe. Who acts: official shops. 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 
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# «Free V-bucks» and other scams, sentence 28

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Codes and currency sold cheaply by other kids or strangers are often stolen or fake; only official shops are safe.

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**Who acts:** official shops · **What happens:** sell, steal, be · **To what, where:** Codes

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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 (official shops), 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:28
# text = Codes and currency sold cheaply by other kids or strangers are often stolen or fake; only official shops are safe.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Codes	code	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	currency	currency	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
4	sold	sell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	acl	_	_
5	cheaply	cheaply	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	kids	kid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl:agent	_	_
9	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	strangers	stranger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
11	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
12	often	often	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	stolen	steal	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
14	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	fake	fake	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	conj	_	_
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
17	only	only	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:advmod
18	official	official	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	shops	shop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
20	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
21	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:conj
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	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 | **sell** | participle |  | Codes and currency *not said here* |  |  |  | cheaply *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **steal** | present · passive |  | Codes and currency |  |  |  | often *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | present | official shops |  |  |  |  | safe *property* | tree rules |

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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:28`.

**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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-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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