--- title: Common signs of a scam are: it asks for passwords or codes, it is to… — «Free V-bucks» and other scams · tree and pragmatics description: Common signs of a scam are: it asks for passwords or codes, it is too good to be true, it rushes you, and it wants secrecy. Who acts: message. 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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 (message), 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:30 # text = Common signs of a scam are: it asks for passwords or codes, it is too good to be true, it rushes you, and it wants secrecy. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1 1 Common common ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 signs sign NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 scam scam NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 6 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 cop _ _ 7 : : PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 8 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 asks ask VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 10 for for ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 passwords password NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obl _ _ 12 or or CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 codes code NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 conj _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=6:punct 15 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 16 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 cop _ _ 17 too too ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 18 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 conj _ _ 19 to to PART TO _ 21 mark _ _ 20 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 21 cop _ _ 21 true true ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 advcl _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 rushes rush VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ _ 25 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 24 obj _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 28 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 29 wants want VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 conj _ _ 30 secrecy secrecy NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | | Common signs | | | | of a scam | tree rules | | 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | message | | | | | for passwords or codes | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is** | present | message | | | | | good *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **is** | to-infinitive | message *not said here* | | | | | true *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **rush** | present | message | you | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location you=Theme | | 6 | **want** | present | message | secrecy | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot secrecy=Theme | 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:416-free-v-bucks-and-other-scams.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. **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: [«Free V-bucks» and other scams, 29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/416-free-v-bucks-and-other-scams/29/) - next →: [«Free V-bucks» and other scams, 31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/416-free-v-bucks-and-other-scams/31/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/416-free-v-bucks-and-other-scams/)