Staying safe online and checking what you see, sentence 19
Real police do not ask for payment by message or phone; «pay or be arrested» messages are scare scams.
Who acts: Real police, messages, message · What happens: not ask, pay, arrest, be · To what, where: scare scams · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Staying safe online and checking what you see» 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 police, messages, message), 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 police | amod |
| 2 | police | police | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 ask | nsubj |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 ask | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 ask | advmod |
| 5 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 payment | case |
| 7 | payment | payment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ask | obl |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 message | case |
| 9 | message | message | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 payment | nmod |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 phone | cc |
| 11 | phone | phone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 message | conj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 pay | punct |
| 13 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 14 pay | punct |
| 14 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 ask | conj |
| 15 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 17 arrested | cc |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 arrested | aux:pass |
| 17 | arrested | arrest | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 pay | conj |
| 18 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 14 pay | punct |
| 19 | messages | message | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 scams | nsubj |
| 20 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 scams | cop |
| 21 | scare | scare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 scams | compound |
| 22 | scams | scam | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 ask | parataxis |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 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 · do-support | Real police | for payment by message or phone | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | pay in a quote | infinitive | Real police not said here | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | arrest in a quote | infinitive · passive | Real police not said here | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP» | |||||
| 4 | is a | present | messages | scare scams | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | pay | message or phone | nom payment «possession transitive»: by=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:283-safe-online-and-checking-what-you-see.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): R6-punct-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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