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title: Shoulder surfing means watching someone type their PIN. — Interest on savings and cash machines · tree and pragmatics
description: Shoulder surfing means watching someone type their PIN. Who acts: Shoulder surfing, someone. A sentence of the lesson «Interest on savings and cash machines» of the money course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Interest on savings and cash machines, sentence 12

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Shoulder surfing means watching someone type their PIN.

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**Who acts:** Shoulder surfing, someone · **What happens:** mean, watch, type · **To what, where:** PIN

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Interest on savings and cash machines» 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 (Shoulder surfing, someone), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:money:027-interest-on-savings-and-cash-machines.lesson:12
# text = Shoulder surfing means watching someone type their PIN.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = money
# lesson = 027-interest-on-savings-and-cash-machines.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	Shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	surfing	surfing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	watching	watch	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	xcomp	_	_
5	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	6	nsubj	_	_
6	type	type	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	PIN	pin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **mean** | present | Shoulder surfing |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **watch** *not said to happen* | gerund | Shoulder surfing *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **type** | infinitive | someone | cameras's PIN |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pin=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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**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.

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