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title: A message from a friend can be a scam if their account was hacked. — Scams: free V-Bucks, fake giveaways, phishing te… · tree and pragmatics
description: A message from a friend can be a scam if their account was hacked. Who acts: message, companies. 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 of every clause.
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# Scams: free V-Bucks, fake giveaways, phishing texts, sentence 13

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A message from a friend can be a scam if their account was hacked.

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**Who acts:** message, companies · **What happens:** be, hack, account · **To what, where:** scam, account

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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 (message, companies), 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:13
# text = A message from a friend can be a scam if their account was hacked.
# 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): no change
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	message	message	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
7	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	cop	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	scam	scam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
10	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
11	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	account	account	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	hacked	hack	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	advcl	_	_
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	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 | **is a** | can | a message from a friend | a scam |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **hack** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · passive |  | companies's account |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Product |
| 3 | **account** |  | companies *= company* |  |  |  |  |  | nom account «communication 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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**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:13`.

**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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