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title: Words people use: "a scam" is a trick to fool people, "trash" means… — The YouTuber who is right about everything · tree and pragmatics
description: Words people use: "a scam" is a trick to fool people, "trash" means rubbish, "influencer" is someone paid or followed online for their opinions, "streamer" is someone who plays games live online, "NASA" is America's space agency, and "a dietitian" is an expert on food and health. Who acts: people, s
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# The YouTuber who is right about everything, sentence 27

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Words people use: "a scam" is a trick to fool people, "trash" means rubbish, "influencer" is someone paid or followed online for their opinions, "streamer" is someone who plays games live online, "NASA" is America's space agency, and "a dietitian" is an expert on food and health.

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**Who acts:** people, scam, trash, influencer, someone, streamer · **What happens:** use, be, fool, mean, pay, follow · **To what, where:** Words, trick, people, rubbish, someone, games · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The YouTuber who is right about everything» of the world 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 (people, scam, trash, influencer), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:174-the-youtuber-who-is-right-about-everything.lesson:27
# text = Words people use: "a scam" is a trick to fool people, "trash" means rubbish, "influencer" is someone paid or followed online for their opinions, "streamer" is someone who plays games live online, "NASA" is America's space agency, and "a dietitian" is an expert on food and health.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 174-the-youtuber-who-is-right-about-everything.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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×3, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
2	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	use	use	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	advcl	_	_
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	scam	scam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
8	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	trick	trick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	ccomp	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	fool	fool	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	acl	_	_
14	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3:punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	_
17	trash	trash	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
18	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	_
19	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
20	rubbish	rubbish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=23:punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	_
23	influencer	influencer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=26:compound
24	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	23	punct	_	_
25	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
26	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	27	nsubj	_	_
27	paid	pay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	ccomp	_	_
28	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	followed	follow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	conj	_	_
30	online	online	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
31	for	for	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	opinions	opinion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl	_	_
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
35	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	36	punct	_	_
36	streamer	streamer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=39:compound
37	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	36	punct	_	_
38	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	39	cop	_	_
39	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	27	obl	_	_
40	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	41	nsubj	_	_
41	plays	play	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	39	acl:relcl	_	_
42	games	game	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	obj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=43:nsubj
43	live	live	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	41	ccomp	_	_
44	online	online	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=43:advmod
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=41:punct
46	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	47	punct	_	_
47	NASA	NASA	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	53	nsubj	_	_
48	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	47	punct	_	_
49	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	53	cop	_	_
50	America	America	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	53	nmod:poss	_	_
51	's	's	PART	POS	_	50	case	_	_
52	space	space	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	compound	_	_
53	agency	agency	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	xcomp	_	_
54	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	62	punct	_	_
55	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	62	cc	_	_
56	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	58	punct	_	_
57	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	58	det	_	_
58	dietitian	dietitian	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	62	nsubj	_	_
59	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	58	punct	_	_
60	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	62	cop	_	_
61	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	62	det	_	_
62	expert	expert	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	appos	_	_
63	on	on	ADP	IN	_	64	case	_	_
64	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	62	nmod	_	_
65	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	66	cc	_	_
66	health	health	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	64	conj	_	_
67	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	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 | **use** | present | people | Words |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Patient |
| 2 | **is a** | present | a scam | a trick |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **fool** | to-infinitive | people *not said here* | people |  |  |  |  | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Patient |
| 4 | **mean** | present | trash | rubbish |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **is a** | present | influencer | someone |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **pay** | participle | someone |  |  |  |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **follow** | participle | someone *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for people's opinions; online *property* | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent for opinion=Attribute |
| 8 | **is a** | present | streamer | someone |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 9 | **play** | present |  | games |  |  |  | online *property* | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent game=Theme clause=Eventuality |
| 10 | **live** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 11 | **is a** | present | NASA | America's space agency |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 12 | **is a** | present | a dietitian | a expert |  | food and health |  |  | tree rules |
| 13 | **opine** |  | people |  |  |  |  |  | nom opinion «cognition 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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×3, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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