Viral facts and chain messages, sentence 5
If a message scares you or asks for details, show a grown-up.
Who acts: message, you · What happens: scare, ask, show · To what, where: you, grown
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 (message, 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 scares | mark |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 message | det |
| 3 | message | message | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 scares | nsubj |
| 4 | scares | scare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 show | advcl |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 scares | obj |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 7 asks | cc |
| 7 | asks | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 scares | conj |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 details | case |
| 9 | details | detail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 asks | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 scares | punct |
| 11 | show | show | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 up | det |
| 13 | grown | grow | NOUN | _ | 11 show | obj |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 up | punct |
| 15 | up | up | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 show | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 show | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | scare a condition, not said to happen | present | a message | you | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus you=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | present | a message not said here | for details | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | show | imperative | you not said here | grown | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent grow=Recipient up=Topic |
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:5.
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 ×2. 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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