--- title: Chain messages that say something bad will happen if you do not pass… — Mean messages, fake ages and sharing photos · tree and pragmatics description: Chain messages that say something bad will happen if you do not pass them on are untrue, but they can scare younger children. Who acts: Chain messages, something, you, messages. 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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 (Chain messages, something, you, messages), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:363-group-chat-laughs-fake-profiles-passwords-and-game-skins.lesson:19 # text = Chain messages that say something bad will happen if you do not pass them on are untrue, but they can scare younger children. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 363-group-chat-laughs-fake-profiles-passwords-and-game-skins.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): R5-strong ×1 1 Chain chain NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 messages message NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nsubj _ _ 3 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 4 nsubj _ _ 4 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 acl:relcl _ _ 5 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 8 nsubj _ _ 6 bad bad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 7 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 8 happen happen VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 ccomp _ _ 9 if if SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 10 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 11 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 12 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 13 advmod _ _ 13 pass pass VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 advcl _ _ 14 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 obj _ _ 15 on on ADP RP _ 13 compound:prt _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 16 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 cop _ _ 17 untrue untrue ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 19 but but CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 20 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 21 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 22 scare scare VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 conj _ _ 23 younger young ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 24 amod _ _ 24 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obj _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 17 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Chain messages | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **happen** | future | something | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **not** **pass on** *a condition, not said to happen* | present · do-support | you | messages *= message* | | | | | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | | 4 | **is** | present | Chain messages | | | | | untrue *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **scare** | can | messages *= message* | younger children | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus child=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:363-group-chat-laughs-fake-profiles-passwords-and-game-skins.lesson:19`. **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. **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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