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title: Fake giveaways promise expensive prizes to strangers and often ask f… — Scams: free V-Bucks, fake giveaways, phishing te… · tree and pragmatics
description: Fake giveaways promise expensive prizes to strangers and often ask for "postage" money or private details. Who acts: Fake giveaways. A sentence of the lesson «Scams: free V-Bucks, fake giveaways, phishing texts» of the money course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics
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# Scams: free V-Bucks, fake giveaways, phishing texts, sentence 10

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Fake giveaways promise expensive prizes to strangers and often ask for "postage" money or private details.

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**Who acts:** Fake giveaways · **What happens:** promise, ask · **To what, where:** expensive prizes, strangers

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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 (Fake giveaways), 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:10
# text = Fake giveaways promise expensive prizes to strangers and often ask for "postage" money or private details.
# 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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Fake	fake	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	giveaways	giveaway	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	promise	promise	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	expensive	expensive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	prizes	prize	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	strangers	stranger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:nmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	often	often	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	ask	ask	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	_
13	postage	postage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
14	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
15	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
16	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	private	private	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	details	detail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | Fake giveaways | expensive prizes |  |  |  | to strangers *goal* | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent prize=Theme to stranger=Goal |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | Fake giveaways *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for postage money or private details; often *property* | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=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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**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:019-scams-free-v-bucks-fake-giveaways-phishing-texts.lesson:10`.

**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, R8-pos-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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