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title: Scam texts sometimes pretend to be a child with a new phone asking f… — The check that settles it · tree and pragmatics
description: Scam texts sometimes pretend to be a child with a new phone asking for money; the check is to call the old number. Who acts: Scam texts, new phone, check. A sentence of the lesson «The check that settles it» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics 
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# The check that settles it, sentence 39

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Scam texts sometimes pretend to be a child with a new phone asking for money; the check is to call the old number.

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**Who acts:** Scam texts, new phone, check · **What happens:** pretend, be, ask · **To what, where:** child

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The check that settles it» 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 (Scam texts, new phone, check), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:451-the-check-that-settles-it.lesson:39
# text = Scam texts sometimes pretend to be a child with a new phone asking for money; the check is to call the old number.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 451-the-check-that-settles-it.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	Scam	scam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	texts	text	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	4	advmod	_	_
4	pretend	pretend	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
6	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	cop	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	xcomp	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	phone	phone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
13	asking	ask	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	acl	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	check	check	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
19	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	call	call	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **pretend** | present | Scam texts |  |  |  |  | sometimes *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | to-infinitive | Scam texts *not said here* | a child |  |  |  | with a new phone | tree rules |
| 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | gerund | a new phone *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for money | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** | present | the check |  |  |  |  | call *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:451-the-check-that-settles-it.lesson:39`.

**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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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