Mean messages, fake ages and sharing photos, sentence 19

Chain messages that say something bad will happen if you do not pass them on are untrue, but they can scare younger children.

Who acts: Chain messages, something, you, messages · What happens: say, happen, not pass on, be, scare · To what, where: messages, younger children · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Mean messages, fake ages and sharing photos» 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 (Chain messages, something, you, messages), 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	Chain	chain	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 messages	compound
2	messages	message	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 untrue	nsubj
3	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 say	nsubj
4	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 messages	acl:relcl
5	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	8 happen	nsubj
6	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 something	amod
7	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 happen	aux
8	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 say	ccomp
9	if	if	SCONJ	_	13 pass	mark
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 pass	nsubj
11	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 pass	aux
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 pass	advmod
13	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 happen	advcl
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 pass	obj
15	on	on	ADP	_	13 pass	compound:prt
16	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 untrue	cop
17	untrue	untrue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 scare	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 scare	cc
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 scare	nsubj
21	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 scare	aux
22	scare	scare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 untrue	conj
23	younger	young	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	24 children	amod
24	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 scare	obj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 untrue	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Chain messages			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	happen	future	something			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	not pass on a condition, not said to happen	present · do-support	you	messages = message		vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
4	is	present	Chain messages		untrue property	tree rules
5	scare	can	messages = message	younger children		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus child=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:363-group-chat-laughs-fake-profiles-passwords-and-game-skins.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): 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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