Illusions that fool the eye and adverts that fool the wallet, sentence 14
Fortune tellers and horoscopes use general statements that fit almost anyone; there is no evidence they predict the future.
Who acts: Fortune tellers, general statements, evidence, tellers · What happens: use, fit, be, predict · To what, where: general statements, anyone, future
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 (Fortune tellers, general statements, evidence, tellers), 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 | Fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 tellers | compound |
| 2 | tellers | teller | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 use | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 horoscopes | cc |
| 4 | horoscopes | horoscope | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 tellers | conj |
| 5 | use | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | general | general | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 statements | amod |
| 7 | statements | statement | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 use | obj |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 fit | nsubj |
| 9 | fit | fit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 statements | acl:relcl |
| 10 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 11 anyone | advmod |
| 11 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 9 fit | obj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 is | punct |
| 13 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 14 is | expl |
| 14 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 use | parataxis |
| 15 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 16 evidence | det |
| 16 | evidence | evidence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 is | nsubj |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 predict | nsubj |
| 18 | predict | predict | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 evidence | acl:relcl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 future | det |
| 20 | future | future | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 predict | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 use | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | present | Fortune tellers and horoscopes | general statements | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent statement=Patient | ||||
| 2 | fit | present | general statements | anyone | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anyone=Patient | ||||
| 3 | be | present | no evidence | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | predict | present | tellers = teller | the future | vn indicate-78 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot future=Topic |
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:14.
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.
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