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title: Scammers use the same tricks in games, on the phone and by email, so… — «Free V-bucks» and other scams · tree and pragmatics
description: Scammers use the same tricks in games, on the phone and by email, so the same checklist works everywhere. Who acts: Scammers, same checklist. 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 31

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Scammers use the same tricks in games, on the phone and by email, so the same checklist works everywhere.

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**Who acts:** Scammers, same checklist · **What happens:** use, work · **To what, where:** same tricks, games

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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 (Scammers, same checklist), 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:31
# text = Scammers use the same tricks in games, on the phone and by email, so the same checklist works everywhere.
# 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	Scammers	scammer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	use	use	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	tricks	trick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	games	game	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	phone	phone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	by	by	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	email	email	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	so	so	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	checklist	checklist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	works	work	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
21	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	20	advmod	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **use** | present | Scammers | the same tricks |  | games |  | on the phone and email | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trick=Patient |
| 2 | **work** | present | the same checklist |  |  |  |  | everywhere *property* | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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