Viral facts and chain messages, sentence 2
Some are harmless nonsense, some are scams that want your details or your parents' money, and a few viral facts are actually true, like giraffes having seven neck bones, the same as us.
Who acts: Some, scams, few viral facts, giraffes, your · What happens: be, want, have, detail · To what, where: harmless nonsense, scams, details, seven neck bones
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 (Some, scams, few viral facts, giraffes), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 nonsense | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 nonsense | cop |
| 3 | harmless | harmless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 nonsense | amod |
| 4 | nonsense | nonsense | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 scams | punct |
| 6 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 scams | nsubj |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 scams | cop |
| 8 | scams | scam | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 nonsense | conj |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 want | nsubj |
| 10 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 scams | acl:relcl |
| 11 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 details | nmod:poss |
| 12 | details | detail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 want | obj |
| 13 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 17 money | cc |
| 14 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 parents | nmod:poss |
| 15 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 money | nmod:poss |
| 16 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 15 parents | case |
| 17 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 details | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 true | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 true | cc |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 facts | det |
| 21 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 facts | amod |
| 22 | viral | viral | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 facts | amod |
| 23 | facts | fact | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 true | nsubj |
| 24 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 true | cop |
| 25 | actually | actually | ADV | _ | 26 true | advmod |
| 26 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 nonsense | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 giraffes | punct |
| 28 | like | like | ADP | _ | 29 giraffes | case |
| 29 | giraffes | giraffe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 nonsense | obl |
| 30 | having | have | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 29 giraffes | acl |
| 31 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 33 bones | nummod |
| 32 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 bones | compound |
| 33 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 having | obj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 same | punct |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 same | det |
| 36 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 nonsense | conj |
| 37 | as | as | ADP | _ | 38 us | case |
| 38 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 36 same | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 nonsense | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- evaluate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- pos
- teacher
- changed voice=narrator
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Some | harmless nonsense and scams | like giraffes | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is a | present | some | scams | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | want | present | scams | your details or your parents's money | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot detail=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is | present | a few viral facts | actually, true property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | have | gerund | giraffes not said here | seven neck bones | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bone=Patient | ||||
| 6 | be | Some not said here | as us | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | detail | your | nom detail «cognition transitive»: poss=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:2.
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): R6-punct-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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