Strangers, hooks and too-perfect messages, sentence 4

They used to give themselves away with spelling mistakes; now their emails can look perfect, and "AI says you've won a prize!" just borrows a clever-sounding word.

Who acts: Scammers, emails, AI, you · What happens: use, give away, look, say, win, borrow · To what, where: Scammers, prize, clever sounding word · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Strangers, hooks and too-perfect messages» of the ai 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 (Scammers, emails, AI, you), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 used	nsubj
2	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 give	mark
4	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 used	xcomp
5	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 give	obj
6	away	away	ADV	_	4 give	compound:prt
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 mistakes	case
8	spelling	spelling	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 mistakes	compound
9	mistakes	mistake	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 give	obl
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	2 used	punct
11	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 look	advmod
12	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 emails	nmod:poss
13	emails	email	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 look	nsubj
14	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 look	aux
15	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 used	parataxis
16	perfect	perfect	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 look	xcomp
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 says	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 says	cc
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 says	punct
20	AI	ai	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 says	nsubj
21	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 borrows	advcl
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 won	nsubj
23	've	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 won	aux
24	won	win	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	21 says	ccomp
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 prize	det
26	prize	prize	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 won	obj
27	!	!	PUNCT	_	21 says	punct
28	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 says	punct
29	just	just	ADV	_	30 borrows	advmod
30	borrows	borrow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 used	conj
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 word	det
32	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 word	amod
33	-	-	PUNCT	_	32 clever	punct
34	sounding	sound	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	35 word	amod
35	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 borrows	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 used	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	use	past	Scammers = scammer				vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	give away	to-infinitive	Scammers = scammer not said here	Scammers = scammer		with spelling mistakes	vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme
3	look	can	Scammers's emails		now	perfect property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
4	say speech: express in a quote	present	AI				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	win in a quote	present · perfect	you	a prize			vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prize=Eventuality
6	borrow	present	Scammers = scammer not said here	a clever sounding word			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme
7	sound	gerund					vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
8	email		Scammers = scammer				nom email «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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:ai:013-strangers-hooks-and-too-perfect-messages.lesson:4.

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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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