--- title: A skimmer is a fake device fitted to a cash machine to steal card de… — Interest on savings and cash machines · tree and pragmatics description: A skimmer is a fake device fitted to a cash machine to steal card details; if a machine looks odd, use another and tell the bank. Who acts: skimmer, machine. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (skimmer, machine), 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:15 # text = A skimmer is a fake device fitted to a cash machine to steal card details; if a machine looks odd, use another and tell the bank. # 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): R5-strong ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 skimmer skimmer NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 fake fake ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 device device NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 7 fitted fit VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 acl _ _ 8 to to ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 cash cash NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 11 machine machine NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 12 to to PART TO _ 13 mark _ _ 13 steal steal VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:acl 14 card card NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 15 details detail NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obj _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 17 if if SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 machine machine NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 20 looks look VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 advcl _ _ 21 odd odd ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 xcomp _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 23 use use VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 24 another another DET DT PronType=Ind 23 obj _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 tell tell VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 23 conj _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 bank bank NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | a skimmer | a fake device | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **fit** | participle | | a fake device *not said here* | | | | to a cash machine *goal* | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent to machine=Goal | | 3 | **steal** | to-infinitive | | card details | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location detail=Theme | | 4 | **look** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | a machine | | | | | odd *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 5 | **use** | infinitive | | another | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent another=Patient | | 6 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive | | the bank | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent bank=Recipient | 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. **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:027-interest-on-savings-and-cash-machines.lesson:15`. **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/). - ← previous: [Interest on savings and cash machines, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/27-interest-on-savings-and-cash-machines/14/) - next →: [Interest on savings and cash machines, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/27-interest-on-savings-and-cash-machines/16/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/27-interest-on-savings-and-cash-machines/)