--- title: A viral post being shared millions of times does not make it true, a… — Viral facts and chain messages · tree and pragmatics description: A viral post being shared millions of times does not make it true, and a few surprising viral facts are true, so check rather than sneer. Who acts: viral post, few surprising viral facts. 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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 (viral post, few surprising viral facts), 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:17 # text = A viral post being shared millions of times does not make it true, and a few surprising viral facts are true, so check rather than sneer. # 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 ×4 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:det 2 viral viral ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:amod 3 post post NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:compound 4 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 aux:pass _ _ 5 shared share VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 acl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:acl 6 millions million NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nsubj _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nmod _ _ 9 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 10 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 11 advmod _ _ 11 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 12 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 obj _ _ 13 true true ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 xcomp _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 17 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 18 surprising surprising ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 19 viral viral ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 facts fact NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nsubj _ _ 21 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 22 true true ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 parataxis _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 so so ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 25 check check VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 11 parataxis _ _ 26 rather rather ADV RB ExtPos=CCONJ 28 cc _ _ 27 than than ADP IN _ 26 fixed _ _ 28 sneer sneer NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 conj _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **share** | gerund · passive | | a viral post *not said here* | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **not** **make** | present · do-support | a viral post | onion | | | | true *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product | | 3 | **is** | present | a few surprising viral facts | | | | | true *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **check** | infinitive | | | | | | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | 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:17`. **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 ×4. **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, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/25-viral-facts-and-chain-messages/16/) - next →: [Sleepovers and spooky stories, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/26-sleepovers-and-spooky-stories/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/25-viral-facts-and-chain-messages/)