Chain messages, lures and scam messages, sentence 29
A boy in Ireland forwarded a chain message that said he would have bad luck if he did not; nothing happened to him, but his friends got scared and annoyed.
Who acts: boy, chain message, nothing, friends · What happens: forward, say, have, happen, get · To what, where: chain message, bad luck, boy · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (boy, chain message, nothing, friends), 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 boy | det |
| 2 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 forwarded | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Ireland | case |
| 4 | Ireland | Ireland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 boy | nmod |
| 5 | forwarded | forward | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 message | det |
| 7 | chain | chain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 message | compound |
| 8 | message | message | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 forwarded | obj |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 said | nsubj |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 message | acl:relcl |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 have | nsubj |
| 12 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 have | aux |
| 13 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 14 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 luck | amod |
| 15 | luck | luck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 have | obj |
| 16 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 18 did | mark |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 did | nsubj |
| 18 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 have | advcl |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 did | advmod |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 happened | punct |
| 21 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 22 happened | nsubj |
| 22 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 forwarded | parataxis |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 him | case |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 happened | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 got | punct |
| 26 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 29 got | cc |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 friends | nmod:poss |
| 28 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 got | nsubj |
| 29 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 forwarded | conj |
| 30 | scared | scared | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 got | xcomp |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 annoyed | cc |
| 32 | annoyed | annoyed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 scared | conj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 forwarded | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | forward | past | a boy in Ireland | a chain message | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent message=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | a chain message | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | have | would | boy | bad luck | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent luck=Patient | ||||
| 4 | happen | past | nothing | boy | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | get | past | boy's friends | scared property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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:29.
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, R8-pos-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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