Viral facts and chain messages, sentence 10
Messages saying WhatsApp will start charging unless you forward them have been shared for years and are hoaxes (tricks made up to fool people).
Who acts: Messages, WhatsApp, you · What happens: say, start, charge, forward, share, be · To what, where: messages, hoaxes, tricks, people · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Viral facts and chain messages» of the myths 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 (Messages, WhatsApp, you), 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 | Messages | message | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 shared | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | saying | say | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 1 Messages | acl |
| 3 | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 start | nsubj | ||
| 4 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 start | aux |
| 5 | start | start | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 saying | ccomp |
| 6 | charging | charge | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 start | xcomp |
| 7 | unless | unless | SCONJ | _ | 9 forward | mark |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 forward | nsubj |
| 9 | forward | forward | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 start | advcl |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 forward | obj |
| 11 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 shared | aux |
| 12 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 shared | aux:pass |
| 13 | shared | share | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 years | case |
| 15 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 shared | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 hoaxes | cc |
| 17 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 hoaxes | cop |
| 18 | hoaxes | hoax | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 shared | conj |
| 19 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 20 tricks | punct |
| 20 | tricks | trick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 hoaxes | appos |
| 21 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 tricks | acl |
| 22 | up | up | ADP | _ | 21 made | compound:prt |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 fool | mark |
| 24 | fool | fool | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 made | advcl |
| 25 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 fool | obj |
| 26 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 20 tricks | punct |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 shared | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | gerund | Messages not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | start | future | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||||
| 3 | charge | gerund | WhatsApp not said here | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | forward a condition, not said to happen | present | you | messages = message | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 5 | share | present · perfect · passive | Messages | year | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | is a | present | hoaxes | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | make up | participle | tricks not said here | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 8 | fool | to-infinitive | people | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=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:myths:025-viral-facts-and-chain-messages.lesson:10.
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, R6-punct-agree ×2, 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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