«Free V-bucks» and other scams, sentence 27

A stranger who asks you to give first and promises to give more later is almost always tricking you.

Who acts: stranger · What happens: ask, give, promise, trick · To what, where: you

This is a sentence of the lesson ««Free V-bucks» and other scams» 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 (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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 stranger	det
2	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 tricking	nsubj
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 asks	nsubj
4	asks	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 stranger	acl:relcl
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 asks	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 give	mark
7	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 asks	xcomp
8	first	first	ADV	NumType=Ord	7 give	advmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 promises	cc
10	promises	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 give	conj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 give	mark
12	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 promises	xcomp
13	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	12 give	advmod
14	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	12 give	advmod
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 tricking	aux
16	almost	almost	ADV	_	17 always	advmod
17	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	18 tricking	advmod
18	tricking	trick	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 tricking	obj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 tricking	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	present	a stranger		you		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic
2	give not said to happen	to-infinitive	a stranger not said here			first property	vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient
3	promise speech: promise	present	a stranger not said here				vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	give not said to happen	to-infinitive	a stranger not said here			late property	vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient
5	trick	present · progressive	a stranger	you		always property	vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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:416-free-v-bucks-and-other-scams.lesson:27.

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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×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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