--- title: A boy in Ireland forwarded a chain message that said he would have b… — Chain messages, lures and scam messages · tree and pragmatics description: A boy in Ireland forwarded a chain message that said he would have bad luck if he did not; nothing happened to him, but his friends got scared and annoyed. Who acts: boy, chain message, nothing, friends. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, chain message, nothing, friends), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:282-chain-messages-lures-and-scam-messages.lesson:29 # text = A boy in Ireland forwarded a chain message that said he would have bad luck if he did not; nothing happened to him, but his friends got scared and annoyed. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 282-chain-messages-lures-and-scam-messages.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Ireland Ireland PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 forwarded forward VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 chain chain NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 message message NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 9 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 10 nsubj _ _ 10 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 acl:relcl _ _ 11 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 12 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 13 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 ccomp _ _ 14 bad bad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 luck luck NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 16 if if SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 17 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 advcl _ _ 19 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 18 advmod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=18:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:Polarity=Neg 20 ; ; PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 22 nsubj _ _ 22 happened happen VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 23 to to ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 obl _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 26 but but CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 27 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 28 friends friend NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 nsubj _ _ 29 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 30 scared scared ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 xcomp _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 32 annoyed annoyed ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 conj _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **forward** | past | a boy in Ireland | a chain message | | | | | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent message=Theme | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | a chain message | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **have** | would | boy | bad luck | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent luck=Patient | | 4 | **happen** | past | nothing | | boy | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **get** | past | boy's friends | | | | | scared *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:everyday:282-chain-messages-lures-and-scam-messages.lesson:29`. **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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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