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title: You cannot charge a phone with an onion; such videos are staged (set… — Viral facts and chain messages · tree and pragmatics
description: You cannot charge a phone with an onion; such videos are staged (set up and acted out to look real). Who acts: You. A sentence of the lesson «Viral facts and chain messages» of the myths course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Viral facts and chain messages, sentence 16

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You cannot charge a phone with an onion; such videos are staged (set up and acted out to look real).

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**Who acts:** You · **What happens:** not charge, stage, set up, act out, look · **To what, where:** phone, such videos

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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), 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:16
# text = You cannot charge a phone with an onion; such videos are staged (set up and acted out to look real).
# 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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	charge	charge	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	phone	phone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	onion	onion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	videos	video	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
13	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	staged	stage	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	parataxis	_	_
15	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	16	punct	_	_
16	set	set	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:conj
17	up	up	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	acted	act	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBD:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin
20	out	out	ADP	RP	_	19	compound:prt	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	advcl	_	_
23	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	xcomp	_	_
24	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	16	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=23:punct
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **charge** | can | You | a phone |  |  |  | with a onion | vn equip-13.4.2 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP»: agent=Agent phone=Recipient with onion=Theme |
| 2 | **stage** | present · passive |  | such videos |  |  |  |  | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **set up** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **act out** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **look** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | real *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |

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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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**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:16`.

**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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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/).

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