Chain messages, lures and scam messages, sentence 7

The same tricks work in real life: a stranger offering sweets or a puppy to come with them is a known way to lure children.

Who acts: same tricks, stranger · What happens: work, offer, come, know, be, lure · To what, where: sweets, known way, children

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 (same tricks, stranger), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 tricks	det
2	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 tricks	amod
3	tricks	trick	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 work	nsubj
4	work	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 life	case
6	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 life	amod
7	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 work	obl
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 work	punct
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 stranger	det
10	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 way	nsubj
11	offering	offer	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 stranger	acl
12	sweets	sweet	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 offering	obj
13	or	or	CCONJ	_	15 puppy	cc
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 puppy	det
15	puppy	puppy	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sweets	conj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 come	mark
17	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 puppy	acl
18	with	with	ADP	_	19 them	case
19	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 come	obl
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 way	cop
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 way	det
22	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 way	amod
23	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 work	parataxis
24	to	to	PART	_	25 lure	mark
25	lure	lure	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 way	acl
26	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 lure	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 work	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	work	present	the same tricks		in real life	vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in life=Theme
2	offer	gerund	a stranger not said here	sweets or a puppy		vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent sweet=Theme
3	come	to-infinitive	a stranger not said here		with sweets = sweet	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	know	participle				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	is a	present	a stranger	a known way		tree rules
6	lure	to-infinitive	the same tricks not said here	children		vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient

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:7.

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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