Chain messages, lures and scam messages, sentence 19
Real businesses never ask to be paid with gift cards; scammers like them because they cannot be traced or refunded.
Who acts: Real businesses, scammers · What happens: not ask, pay, like, not trace, refund · To what, where: businesses, Scammers
This is a sentence of the lesson «Chain messages, lures and scam messages» 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 (Real businesses, scammers), 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 | Real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 businesses | amod |
| 2 | businesses | business | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 ask | nsubj |
| 3 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 4 ask | advmod |
| 4 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 paid | mark |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 paid | aux:pass |
| 7 | paid | pay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 ask | xcomp |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 cards | case |
| 9 | gift | gift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 cards | compound |
| 10 | cards | card | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 paid | obl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 scammers | punct |
| 12 | scammers | scammer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 like | nsubj |
| 13 | like | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 ask | parataxis |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 like | obj |
| 15 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 20 traced | mark |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 traced | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 traced | aux |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 traced | advmod |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 traced | aux:pass |
| 20 | traced | trace | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 like | advcl |
| 21 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 22 refunded | cc |
| 22 | refunded | refund | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 traced | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 ask | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not ask speech: ask | present | Real businesses | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | pay not said to happen | to-infinitive · passive | Real businesses not said here | with gift cards | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP» | ||||
| 3 | like | present | scammers | businesses = business | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot they=Theme | ||||
| 4 | not trace | can · passive | Scammers = scammer | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 5 | refund | participle | vn give-13.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=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:everyday:282-chain-messages-lures-and-scam-messages.lesson:19.
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. 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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