--- title: Messages saying WhatsApp will start charging unless you forward them… — Viral facts and chain messages · tree and pragmatics description: Messages saying WhatsApp will start charging unless you forward them have been shared for years and are hoaxes (tricks made up to fool people). Who acts: Messages, WhatsApp, you. 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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 (Messages, WhatsApp, you), 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:10 # text = Messages saying WhatsApp will start charging unless you forward them have been shared for years and are hoaxes (tricks made up to fool people). # 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, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Messages message NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nsubj:pass _ _ 2 saying say VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 1 acl _ _ 3 WhatsApp WhatsApp PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 4 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 5 start start VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 ccomp _ _ 6 charging charge VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 5 xcomp _ _ 7 unless unless SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 8 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 forward forward VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:advcl 10 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 obj _ _ 11 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 12 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 13 aux:pass _ _ 13 shared share VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 14 for for ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obl _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 17 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 cop _ _ 18 hoaxes hoax NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 conj _ _ 19 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 20 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=21:punct 20 tricks trick NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 appos _ _ 21 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 20 acl _ _ 22 up up ADP RP _ 21 compound:prt _ _ 23 to to PART TO _ 24 mark _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=24:mark|HaikuPos=SCONJ:IN:_ 24 fool fool VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:xcomp 25 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obj _ _ 26 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 20 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=21:punct 27 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | Messages *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **start** | future | WhatsApp | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 3 | **charge** | gerund | WhatsApp *not said here* | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **forward** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you | messages *= message* | | | | | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | | 5 | **share** | present · perfect · passive | | Messages | | | year | | tree rules | | 6 | **is a** | present | | hoaxes | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **make up** | participle | | tricks *not said here* | | | | | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **fool** | to-infinitive | | people | | | | | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Patient | 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:10`. **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, R6-punct-agree ×2, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Viral facts and chain messages, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/25-viral-facts-and-chain-messages/8/) - next →: [Viral facts and chain messages, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/25-viral-facts-and-chain-messages/11/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/25-viral-facts-and-chain-messages/)