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title: Real companies and banks never ask for your password, never ask for… — Scams: free V-Bucks, fake giveaways, phishing te… · tree and pragmatics
description: Real companies and banks never ask for your password, never ask for gift card codes and never tell you to move money to a "safe account"; a link can be fake even when it comes from a friend, because their account may have been hacked. Who acts: Real companies, link, companies. A sentence of the less
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# Scams: free V-Bucks, fake giveaways, phishing texts, sentence 4

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Real companies and banks never ask for your password, never ask for gift card codes and never tell you to move money to a "safe account"; a link can be fake even when it comes from a friend, because their account may have been hacked.

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**Who acts:** Real companies, link, companies · **What happens:** not ask, not tell, move, be, come, hack · **To what, where:** you, money, safe account, account · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Real companies, link, 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:4
# text = Real companies and banks never ask for your password, never ask for gift card codes and never tell you to move money to a "safe account"; a link can be fake even when it comes from a friend, because their account may have been 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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	companies	company	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	banks	bank	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
5	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	ask	ask	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	password	password	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
12	ask	ask	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	gift	gift	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	card	card	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	codes	code	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
19	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin
20	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	19	iobj	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	move	move	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:ccomp
23	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
26	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	28	punct	_	_
27	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	account	account	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
29	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	28	punct	_	_
30	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	link	link	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	_
33	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
34	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	cop	_	_
35	fake	fake	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	parataxis	_	_
36	even	even	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
37	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	39	advmod	_	_
38	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
39	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	35	advcl	_	_
40	from	from	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	_
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
44	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	50	mark	_	_
45	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	46	nmod:poss	_	_
46	account	account	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	nsubj:pass	_	_
47	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	50	aux	_	_
48	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	50	aux	_	_
49	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	50	aux:pass	_	_
50	hacked	hack	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	advcl	_	_
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **not** **ask** *speech: ask* | infinitive | Real companies and banks |  |  |  |  | for your password | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **not** **ask** *speech: ask* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | for card codes | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **not** **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive | Real companies and banks *not said here* |  | you |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 4 | **move** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Real companies and banks *not said here* | money |  | a safe account |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent money=Theme to account=Trajectory |
| 5 | **is** | can | a link |  |  |  |  | fake *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **come** | present | link |  |  |  |  | from a friend | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from friend=Initial\_Location |
| 7 | **hack** | may · perfect · passive |  | companies's account |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Product |
| 8 | **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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**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, 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.

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