--- title: Some are harmless nonsense, some are scams that want your details or… — Viral facts and chain messages · tree and pragmatics description: Some are harmless nonsense, some are scams that want your details or your parents' money, and a few viral facts are actually true, like giraffes having seven neck bones, the same as us. Who acts: Some, scams, few viral facts, giraffes. 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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 (Some, scams, few viral facts, giraffes), 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:2 # text = Some are harmless nonsense, some are scams that want your details or your parents' money, and a few viral facts are actually true, like giraffes having seven neck bones, the same as us. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1 1 Some some DET DT PronType=Ind 4 nsubj _ _ 2 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 3 harmless harmless ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 nonsense nonsense NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=10:punct 6 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 8 nsubj _ _ 7 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 8 scams scam NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 conj _ _ 9 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 10 nsubj _ _ 10 want want VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 acl:relcl _ _ 11 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 details detail NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obj _ _ 13 or or CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 14 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 parents parent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nmod:poss _ _ 16 ' 's PART POS _ 15 case _ _ 17 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 conj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 21 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 22 viral viral ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 facts fact NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nsubj _ _ 24 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 cop _ _ 25 actually actually ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 26 true true ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 conj _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 28 like like ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 giraffes giraffe NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ 30 having have VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 29 acl _ _ 31 seven seven NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 33 nummod _ _ 32 neck neck NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 compound _ _ 33 bones bone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obj _ _ 34 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 conj _ _ 37 as as ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 36 obl _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: evaluate - voice: narrator - polarity: pos - teacher: changed voice=narrator | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | Some | harmless nonsense and scams | | | | like giraffes | tree rules | | 2 | **is a** | present | some | scams | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **want** | present | scams | your details or your parents's money | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot detail=Theme | | 4 | **is** | present | a few viral facts | | | | | actually, true *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **have** | gerund | giraffes *not said here* | seven neck bones | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bone=Patient | | 6 | **be** | | Some *not said here* | | | | | as us | tree rules | | 7 | **detail** | | your | | | | | | nom detail «cognition transitive»: poss=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:2`. **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): R6-punct-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, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/25-viral-facts-and-chain-messages/1/) - next →: [Viral facts and chain messages, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/25-viral-facts-and-chain-messages/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/25-viral-facts-and-chain-messages/)