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title: When someone promises you something too good to be true, like double… — Regret, silly buys and peer pressure · tree and pragmatics
description: When someone promises you something too good to be true, like double money back tomorrow, it is probably a trick; tell a trusted adult. Who acts: someone, money. A sentence of the lesson «Regret, silly buys and peer pressure» of the money course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and 
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# Regret, silly buys and peer pressure, sentence 11

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When someone promises you something too good to be true, like double money back tomorrow, it is probably a trick; tell a trusted adult.

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**Who acts:** someone, money · **What happens:** promise, be, tell · **To what, where:** something, you, trick, trusted adult · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Regret, silly buys and peer pressure» of the money 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 (someone, money), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:money:010-regret-silly-buys-and-peer-pressure.lesson:11
# text = When someone promises you something too good to be true, like double money back tomorrow, it is probably a trick; tell a trusted adult.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = money
# lesson = 010-regret-silly-buys-and-peer-pressure.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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	3	mark	_	_
2	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	3	nsubj	_	_
3	promises	promise	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	advcl	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	iobj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:obj
5	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	3	obj	_	_
6	too	too	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
9	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	cop	_	_
10	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	acl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	like	like	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	double	double	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
15	back	back	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	tomorrow	tomorrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl:unmarked	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
19	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
20	probably	probably	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	trick	trick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
23	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
24	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	parataxis	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	trusted	trust	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	adult	adult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	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 | **promise** *speech: promise* | present | someone | something | you |  |  | like double money | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent you=Goal something=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | to-infinitive | someone *not said here* | something *not said here* |  |  |  | true *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | present | money | a trick |  |  |  | probably *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive |  |  | a trusted adult |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient |

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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:money:010-regret-silly-buys-and-peer-pressure.lesson:11`.

**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): 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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