Illusions that fool the eye and adverts that fool the wallet, sentence 11
The advert was not exactly a lie, but it showed the toy at its very best.
Who acts: advert, lie · What happens: not be, show · To what, where: lie, toy, best
This is a sentence of the lesson «Illusions that fool the eye and adverts that fool the wallet» of the everyday 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 (advert, lie), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 advert | det |
| 2 | advert | advert | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lie | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 lie | cop |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 lie | advmod |
| 5 | exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 7 lie | advmod |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 lie | det |
| 7 | lie | lie | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 showed | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 showed | cc |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 showed | nsubj |
| 11 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 lie | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 toy | det |
| 13 | toy | toy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 showed | obj |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 best | case |
| 15 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 best | nmod:poss |
| 16 | very | very | ADV | _ | 17 best | advmod |
| 17 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 11 showed | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 lie | punct |
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 | not is a | past | the advert | a lie | exactly property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | show | past | lie | the toy | lie's best | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent toy=Recipient |
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, 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:everyday:280-illusions-and-adverts.lesson:11.
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): R1-cc-next ×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.
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