Viral facts and chain messages, sentence 6
Chain messages that threaten bad luck have no power; paper chain letters made the same threats long before phones existed.
Who acts: Chain messages, chain letters · What happens: threaten, have, make, exist · To what, where: bad luck, power, same threats, phones
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 (Chain messages, chain letters), 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 | 7 have | nsubj |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 threaten | nsubj |
| 4 | threaten | threaten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 messages | acl:relcl |
| 5 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 luck | amod |
| 6 | luck | luck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 threaten | obj |
| 7 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 9 power | det |
| 9 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 have | obj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 made | punct |
| 11 | paper | paper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 chain | compound |
| 12 | chain | chain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 letters | compound |
| 13 | letters | letter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 made | nsubj |
| 14 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 have | parataxis |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 threats | det |
| 16 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 threats | amod |
| 17 | threats | threat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 made | obj |
| 18 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 14 made | advmod |
| 19 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 21 existed | mark |
| 20 | phones | phone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 made | obl |
| 21 | existed | exist | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 phones | acl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 have | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | threaten | present | Chain messages | bad luck | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus luck=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | have | present | Chain messages | no power | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Patient | ||||
| 3 | make | past | chain letters | the same threats | phones obl; long property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset threat=Product | |||
| 4 | exist | participle | phones not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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:6.
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, R7-rel-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.
See the release 0.4.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/25-viral-facts-and-chain-messages/6/