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title: Forwarding a message cannot protect or hack a phone; chain messages… — Checking practice: true, false and not sure yet · tree and pragmatics
description: Forwarding a message cannot protect or hack a phone; chain messages spread by making people scared. Who acts: Forwarding, chain messages. A sentence of the lesson «Checking practice: true, false and not sure yet» of the politics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragma
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# Checking practice: true, false and not sure yet, sentence 15

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Forwarding a message cannot protect or hack a phone; chain messages spread by making people scared.

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**Who acts:** Forwarding, chain messages · **What happens:** forward, not protect, hack, spread, make · **To what, where:** message, phone, people

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Checking practice: true, false and not sure yet» of the politics 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 (Forwarding, chain messages), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:politics:036-checking-practice-true-false-not-sure.lesson:15
# text = Forwarding a message cannot protect or hack a phone; chain messages spread by making people scared.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = politics
# lesson = 036-checking-practice-true-false-not-sure.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): no change
1	Forwarding	forward	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	csubj	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	message	message	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	protect	protect	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	hack	hack	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	phone	phone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	chain	chain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	messages	message	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
14	spread	spread	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
15	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
16	making	make	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
17	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
18	scared	scared	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	xcomp	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **forward** | gerund |  | a message |  |  |  |  | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent message=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **protect** | can | Forwarding |  |  |  |  |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **hack** | infinitive | Forwarding *not said here* | a phone |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent phone=Product |
| 4 | **spread** | present | chain messages |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **make** | gerund | chain messages *not said here* | people |  |  |  | scared *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset people=Product |

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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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**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): no change. **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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