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title: If you are tricked, telling a grown-up quickly, contacting the game'… — «Free V-bucks» and other scams · tree and pragmatics
description: If you are tricked, telling a grown-up quickly, contacting the game's support team and changing your password limits the damage. Who acts: telling. 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
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# «Free V-bucks» and other scams, sentence 32

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If you are tricked, telling a grown-up quickly, contacting the game's support team and changing your password limits the damage.

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**Who acts:** telling · **What happens:** trick, tell, contact, change, limit · **To what, where:** you, grown, support team, password, damage · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (telling), 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:32
# text = If you are tricked, telling a grown-up quickly, contacting the game's support team and changing your password limits the damage.
# 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
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	tricked	trick	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	advcl	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	telling	tell	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	csubj	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	obj	_	_
8	grown	grow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	_
10	up	up	ADP	RP	_	8	compound	_	_
11	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	contacting	contact	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	conj	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod:poss	_	_
16	's	's	PART	POS	_	15	case	_	_
17	support	support	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	team	team	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	changing	change	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	conj	_	_
21	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	password	password	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:nsubj
23	limits	limit	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	damage	damage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **trick** *a condition, not said to happen* | present · passive |  | you |  |  |  |  | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund |  | grown |  |  |  | quickly *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent grow=Recipient |
| 3 | **contact** | gerund |  | the game's support team |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **change** | gerund |  | your password |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent password=Patient |
| 5 | **limit** | present | telling | the damage |  |  |  |  | vn limit-76 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer damage=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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**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. **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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