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title: A message that pretends to be your bank, a game or a friend and asks… — The internet and undersea cables · tree and pragmatics
description: A message that pretends to be your bank, a game or a friend and asks for a password or money is a scam: never give passwords, never click strange links, and always tell an adult. Who acts: message. A sentence of the lesson «The internet and undersea cables» of the technology course of Mova's primary
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# The internet and undersea cables, sentence 6

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A message that pretends to be your bank, a game or a friend and asks for a password or money is a scam: never give passwords, never click strange links, and always tell an adult.

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**Who acts:** message · **What happens:** pretend, be, ask, not give, not click, tell · **To what, where:** bank, scam, passwords, strange links, adult · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The internet and undersea cables» of the technology 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), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:technology:037-the-internet-and-undersea-cables.lesson:6
# text = A message that pretends to be your bank, a game or a friend and asks for a password or money is a scam: never give passwords, never click strange links, and always tell an adult.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = technology
# lesson = 037-the-internet-and-undersea-cables.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, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	message	message	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
3	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	pretends	pretend	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
6	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	cop	_	_
7	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	bank	bank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	xcomp	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:obl
12	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	asks	ask	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	password	password	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
22	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	scam	scam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
25	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
26	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	27	advmod	_	_
27	give	give	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	24	parataxis	_	_
28	passwords	password	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obj	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	31	advmod	_	_
31	click	click	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	27	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=27:parataxis
32	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	links	link	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obj	_	_
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
36	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	37	advmod	_	_
37	tell	tell	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	27	conj	_	_
38	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	adult	adult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	_
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	24	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 | **pretend** | present | a message |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | to-infinitive | a message *not said here* | your bank and a game or a friend |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | a message *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for a password or money | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is a** | present | a message | a scam |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **not** **give** | infinitive |  | passwords |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent password=Theme |
| 6 | **not** **click** | infinitive |  | strange links |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location link=Theme |
| 7 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive |  |  | a adult |  |  | always *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient |

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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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-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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