When money is tight, sentence 18
A text saying a parcel is held and asking for a small payment is a common scam to steal bank details.
Who acts: text, asking · What happens: say, hold, ask, be, steal · To what, where: text, common scam, bank details · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «When money is tight» of the adult life 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 (text, asking), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 text | det |
| 2 | text | text | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 held | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | saying | say | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 text | acl |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 parcel | det |
| 5 | parcel | parcel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 held | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 held | aux:pass |
| 7 | held | hold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 scam | cc |
| 9 | asking | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 scam | csubj |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 payment | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 payment | det |
| 12 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 payment | amod |
| 13 | payment | payment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 asking | obl |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 scam | cop |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 scam | det |
| 16 | common | common | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 scam | amod |
| 17 | scam | scam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 held | conj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 steal | mark |
| 19 | steal | steal | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 scam | acl |
| 20 | bank | bank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 details | compound |
| 21 | details | detail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 steal | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 held | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | gerund | a text not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | hold | present · passive | a text | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | gerund | for a small payment | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is a | present | asking | a common scam | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | steal | to-infinitive | bank details | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location detail=Theme |
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, 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:adult-life:009-when-money-is-tight.lesson:18.
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.
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