Viral facts and chain messages, sentence 17

A viral post being shared millions of times does not make it true, and a few surprising viral facts are true, so check rather than sneer.

Who acts: viral post, few surprising viral facts · What happens: share, not make, be, check · To what, where: viral post, onion

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 (viral post, few surprising viral facts), 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	3 post	det
2	viral	viral	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 post	amod
3	post	post	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 make	nsubj
4	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 shared	aux:pass
5	shared	share	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 post	acl
6	millions	million	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 make	nsubj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 times	case
8	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 millions	nmod
9	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 make	aux
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 make	advmod
11	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 make	obj
13	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 make	xcomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 true	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 true	cc
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 facts	det
17	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 facts	amod
18	surprising	surprising	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 facts	amod
19	viral	viral	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 facts	amod
20	facts	fact	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 true	nsubj
21	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 true	cop
22	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 true	parataxis
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 check	punct
24	so	so	ADV	_	25 check	advmod
25	check	check	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	11 make	parataxis
26	rather	rather	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	28 sneer	cc
27	than	than	ADP	_	26 rather	fixed
28	sneer	sneer	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 check	conj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 make	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=assert

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	share	gerund · passive		a viral post not said here		tree rules
2	not make	present · do-support	a viral post	onion	true property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product
3	is	present	a few surprising viral facts		true property	tree rules
4	check	infinitive				vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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:17.

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 ×4. 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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