Gift cards and birthday money: making it last, sentence 30
Anyone who asks you to pay them in gift cards, or to read them a gift card code, is almost certainly a scammer.
Who acts: Anyone · What happens: ask, pay, read, be · To what, where: you, pounds, gift cards, card code, scammer
This is a sentence of the lesson «Gift cards and birthday money: making it last» 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 (Anyone), 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 | Anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 25 scammer | nsubj |
| 2 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 asks | nsubj |
| 3 | asks | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Anyone | acl:relcl |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 asks | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 pay | mark |
| 6 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 asks | xcomp |
| 7 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 pay | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 cards | case |
| 9 | gift | gift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 cards | compound |
| 10 | cards | card | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 pay | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 read | punct |
| 12 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 14 read | cc |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 read | mark |
| 14 | read | read | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 pay | conj |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 read | iobj |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 code | det |
| 17 | gift | gift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 card | compound |
| 18 | card | card | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 code | compound |
| 19 | code | code | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 read | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 scammer | punct |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 scammer | cop |
| 22 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 23 certainly | advmod |
| 23 | certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 25 scammer | advmod |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 scammer | det |
| 25 | scammer | scammer | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 25 scammer | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- warn
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- neg
- teacher
- changed act=warn, polarity=neg
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | present | you | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | pay not said to happen | to-infinitive | pounds = pound | gift cards | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Asset | ||||
| 3 | read | to-infinitive | a card code | pounds = pound | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient code=Topic | ||||
| 4 | is a | present | Anyone | a scammer | certainly property | tree rules |
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:415-gift-cards-and-birthday-money.lesson:30.
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, 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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