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description: A scam is a trick to steal your money, your account or your private details, and scammers dress it up as a gift, a prize, a warning or a bargain. Who acts: scam, scammers, your. A sentence of the lesson «Scams: free V-Bucks, fake giveaways, phishing texts» of the money course of Mova's primary schoo
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# Scams: free V-Bucks, fake giveaways, phishing texts, sentence 0

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A scam is a trick to steal your money, your account or your private details, and scammers dress it up as a gift, a prize, a warning or a bargain.

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**Who acts:** scam, scammers, your · **What happens:** be, steal, dress up, account, detail · **To what, where:** trick, money, scam

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Scams: free V-Bucks, fake giveaways, phishing texts» 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 (scam, scammers, your), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:money:019-scams-free-v-bucks-fake-giveaways-phishing-texts.lesson:0
# text = A scam is a trick to steal your money, your account or your private details, and scammers dress it up as a gift, a prize, a warning or a bargain.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = money
# lesson = 019-scams-free-v-bucks-fake-giveaways-phishing-texts.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 ×2
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	scam	scam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	trick	trick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	steal	steal	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	acl	_	_
8	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	account	account	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:conj
13	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
15	private	private	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	details	detail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	scammers	scammer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
20	dress	dress	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	up	up	ADP	RP	_	20	compound:prt	_	_
23	as	as	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	gift	gift	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	prize	prize	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	warning	warning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
32	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	bargain	bargain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **is a** | present | a scam | a trick or your private details and a warning or a bargain |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **steal** | to-infinitive |  | your money and your account |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location money=Theme |
| 3 | **dress up** | present | scammers | scam |  |  |  | as a gift and a prize | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 4 | **account** |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom account «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
| 5 | **detail** |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom detail «cognition transitive»: poss=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): R5-strong ×2. **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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