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title: A scam is a trick to steal money, an account or private details. — Scams: free V-Bucks, fake giveaways, phishing te… · tree and pragmatics
description: A scam is a trick to steal money, an account or private details. Who acts: scam. 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 6

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A scam is a trick to steal money, an account or private details.

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**Who acts:** scam · **What happens:** be, steal · **To what, where:** trick, money

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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), 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:6
# text = A scam is a trick to steal money, an account 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
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	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	account	account	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:conj
12	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	private	private	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	details	detail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
15	.	.	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 private details |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **steal** | to-infinitive |  | money and a account |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location money=Theme |

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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:6`.

**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. **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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