Pocket money, saving and spending, sentence 14

You never send a gift card or money to someone online; scammers ask for gift cards because they cannot be traced (nobody can follow where the money went).

Who acts: You, scammers, nobody, money · What happens: not send, ask, not trace, follow, go · To what, where: gift card, someone, card

This is a sentence of the lesson «Pocket money, saving and spending» of the everyday 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 (You, scammers, nobody, money), 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 send	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 send	advmod
3	send	send	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 card	det
5	gift	gift	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 card	compound
6	card	card	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 send	obj
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 money	cc
8	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 card	conj
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 someone	case
10	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	3 send	obl
11	online	online	ADV	_	3 send	advmod
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 ask	punct
13	scammers	scammer	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 ask	nsubj
14	ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 send	parataxis
15	for	for	ADP	_	17 cards	case
16	gift	gift	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 cards	compound
17	cards	card	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 ask	obl
18	because	because	SCONJ	_	23 traced	mark
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 traced	nsubj:pass
20	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 traced	aux
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 traced	advmod
22	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 traced	aux:pass
23	traced	trace	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 ask	advcl
24	(	(	PUNCT	_	27 follow	punct
25	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	27 follow	nsubj
26	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 follow	aux
27	follow	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 send	parataxis
28	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	31 went	advmod
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 money	det
30	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 went	nsubj
31	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 follow	advcl
32	)	)	PUNCT	_	27 follow	punct
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 send	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	not send	infinitive	You	a gift card or money	someone	online property	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent card=Theme to someone=Destination
2	ask speech: ask	present	scammers			for gift cards	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	not trace	can · passive		card			vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
4	follow	can	nobody				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	go	past	the money				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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:everyday:261-pocket-money-saving-and-spending.lesson:14.

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 ×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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