--- title: Chain messages that threaten bad luck have no power; paper chain let… — Viral facts and chain messages · tree and pragmatics description: Chain messages that threaten bad luck have no power; paper chain letters made the same threats long before phones existed. Who acts: Chain messages, chain letters. 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 --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/25-viral-facts-and-chain-messages/6/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Myths](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/) / [Viral facts and chain messages](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/25-viral-facts-and-chain-messages/) / 6 # Viral facts and chain messages, sentence 6 Chain messages that threaten bad luck have no power; paper chain letters made the same threats long before phones existed. **Who acts:** Chain messages, chain letters · **What happens:** threaten, have, make, exist · **To what, where:** bad luck, power, same threats, phones 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 (Chain messages, chain letters), 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:6 # text = Chain messages that threaten bad luck have no power; paper chain letters made the same threats long before phones existed. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Chain chain NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 messages message NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 3 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 4 nsubj _ _ 4 threaten threaten VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 acl:relcl _ _ 5 bad bad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 luck luck NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 9 det _ _ 9 power power NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 ; ; PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 11 paper paper NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 12 chain chain NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 13 letters letter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nsubj _ _ 14 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:conj 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 threats threat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obj _ _ 18 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 14 advmod _ _ 19 before before SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 20 phones phone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obl _ _ 21 existed exist VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 20 acl _ _ 22 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **threaten** | present | Chain messages | bad luck | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus luck=Experiencer | | 2 | **have** | present | Chain messages | no power | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Patient | | 3 | **make** | past | chain letters | the same threats | | | | phones *obl*; long *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset threat=Product | | 4 | **exist** | participle | | phones *not said here* | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:6`. **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, R7-rel-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, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/25-viral-facts-and-chain-messages/5/) - next →: [Viral facts and chain messages, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/25-viral-facts-and-chain-messages/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/25-viral-facts-and-chain-messages/)