--- title: "Send this to 10 people in 10 minutes or you'll have bad luck for 10… — Viral facts and chain messages · tree and pragmatics description: "Send this to 10 people in 10 minutes or you'll have bad luck for 10 years!" Your thumb hovers over Forward, because what if? Who acts: you, thumb. 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Your thumb hovers over Forward, because what if? **Who acts:** you, thumb · **What happens:** send, have, hover · **To what, where:** this, bad luck · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (you, thumb), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:myths:025-viral-facts-and-chain-messages.lesson:0 # text = "Send this to 10 people in 10 minutes or you'll have bad luck for 10 years!" Your thumb hovers over Forward, because what if? # source = school lesson (ours) # course = myths # lesson = 025-viral-facts-and-chain-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): R5-strong ×1 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ _ 2 Send send VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 2 obj _ _ 4 to to ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 10 10 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 6 nummod _ _ 6 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 10 10 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 9 nummod _ _ 9 minutes minute NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ _ 10 or or CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 11 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 12 'll will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 13 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 conj _ _ 14 bad bad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 luck luck NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 16 for for ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 10 10 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 18 nummod _ _ 18 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:nmod 19 ! ! PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ 20 " " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 21 Your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 thumb thumb NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 23 hovers hover VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 24 over over ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 Forward forward ADV RB _ 23 obl _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 27 because because ADP IN ExtPos=ADP 28 case _ _ 28 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 2 obj _ _ 29 if if SCONJ IN _ 2 obl _ _ 30 ? ? PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: request - voice: character - polarity: neg - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **send** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* | this | | | minute | to 10 people | tree rules | | 2 | **have** *in a quote* | future | you | bad luck | | | year | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent luck=Patient | | 3 | **hover** | present | Your thumb | | | | | | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over forward=Location | 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:myths:025-viral-facts-and-chain-messages.lesson:0`. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [School legends, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/24-school-legends/17/) - next →: [Viral facts and chain messages, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/25-viral-facts-and-chain-messages/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/25-viral-facts-and-chain-messages/)