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title: A scary "challenge" warning says share to warn parents. What could s… — Viral facts and chain messages · tree and pragmatics
description: A scary "challenge" warning says share to warn parents. What could sharing do? Test 9 · ★★ of lesson 25 «Viral facts and chain messages» of the myths course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was right.
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# Test 9 · ★★ · Viral facts and chain messages

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A scary "challenge" warning says share to warn parents. What could sharing do?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** scary challenge warning, parents · **What happens:** say, share, warn, do · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 9 · ★★ of lesson 25 «Viral facts and chain messages» of the myths course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: [the test at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/myths/25-viral-facts-and-chain-messages/#t9).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A scary "challenge" warning says share to warn parents.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:myths:25-viral-facts-and-chain-messages:t9:1
# text = A scary "challenge" warning says share to warn parents.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
2	scary	scary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
3	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	challenge	challenge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
6	warning	warning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	share	share	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	ccomp	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	warn	warn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	_
11	parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | a scary challenge warning |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **share** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **warn** *speech: warn* | to-infinitive | parents |  |  |  |  |  | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent |

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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.

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*Sentence 2:* What could sharing do?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:myths:25-viral-facts-and-chain-messages:t9:2
# text = What could sharing do?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
2	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	sharing	share	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **share** | could |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **do** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Stop the challenge at once

```conllu
# sent_id = question:myths:25-viral-facts-and-chain-messages:t9:o1:1
# text = Stop the challenge at once
1	Stop	stop	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	challenge	challenge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stop** | imperative | you *not said here* | the challenge |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality challenge=Eventuality |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Make the challenge illegal

```conllu
# sent_id = question:myths:25-viral-facts-and-chain-messages:t9:o2:1
# text = Make the challenge illegal
1	Make	make	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	challenge	challenge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	illegal	illegal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | imperative | you *not said here* | the challenge illegal |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset illegal=Product |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Nothing, sharing has no effects ever

```conllu
# sent_id = question:myths:25-viral-facts-and-chain-messages:t9:o3:1
# text = Nothing, sharing has no effects ever
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	sharing	share	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	conj	_	_
4	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	6	det	_	_
6	effects	effect	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	4	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **share** | gerund | Nothing *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | present | Nothing | no effects |  |  | ever |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent effect=Patient |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Spread fear about something that may be a hoax

```conllu
# sent_id = question:myths:25-viral-facts-and-chain-messages:t9:o4:1
# text = Spread fear about something that may be a hoax
1	Spread	spread	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	fear	fear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
3	about	about	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	1	obl	_	_
5	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
6	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
7	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	cop	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	hoax	hoax	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	acl:relcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spread** | imperative | you *not said here* | fear |  |  |  | about something | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent fear=Theme about something=Destination |
| 2 | **is a** | may |  | a hoax |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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**Text:** the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (`world/data/school/`), as the course runner gave them to the student. **Trees:** Mova's own parse — the `en` model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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