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title: Being tricked is not your fault; telling a grown-up quickly helps li… — «Free skins» and scams in games · tree and pragmatics
description: Being tricked is not your fault; telling a grown-up quickly helps limit the damage. Who acts: telling. A sentence of the lesson ««Free skins» and scams in games» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# «Free skins» and scams in games, sentence 38

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Being tricked is not your fault; telling a grown-up quickly helps limit the damage.

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**Who acts:** telling · **What happens:** trick, not be, tell, grow up, help, limit · **To what, where:** fault, damage · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson ««Free skins» and scams in games» 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:444-free-skins-and-scams-in-games.lesson:38
# text = Being tricked is not your fault; telling a grown-up quickly helps limit the damage.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 444-free-skins-and-scams-in-games.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): R4-particle ×1, R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Being	be	AUX	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	aux:pass	_	_
2	tricked	trick	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	csubj:pass	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
5	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	fault	fault	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
8	telling	tell	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	csubj	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:det
10	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	obj	_	_
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	_
12	up	up	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound:prt	_	Agree=R4-particle|Haiku=10:compound|HaikuPos=ADP:RP:_
13	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:advmod
14	helps	help	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj
15	limit	limit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	damage	damage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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** | gerund · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP» |
| 2 | **not** **is a** | present |  | your fault |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | quickly *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **grow up** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **help** | present | telling |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 6 | **limit** | infinitive | telling *not said here* | 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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**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:444-free-skins-and-scams-in-games.lesson:38`.

**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): R4-particle ×1, R5-strong ×2, 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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