Illusions that fool the eye and adverts that fool the wallet, sentence 21
Adverts show toys at their best, sometimes with effects; «pictures are for illustration» means the real toy may do less.
Who acts: Adverts, pictures, real toy · What happens: show, be, mean, do · To what, where: toys, effects · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Adverts, pictures, real toy), 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 | Adverts | advert | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 show | nsubj |
| 2 | show | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | toys | toy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 show | obj |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 effects | case |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 best | nmod:poss |
| 6 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 2 show | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 effects | punct |
| 8 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 10 effects | advmod |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 effects | case |
| 10 | effects | effect | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 show | obl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 pictures | punct |
| 12 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 13 pictures | punct |
| 13 | pictures | picture | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 illustration | nsubj |
| 14 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 illustration | cop |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 illustration | case |
| 16 | illustration | illustration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 means | ccomp |
| 17 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 16 illustration | punct |
| 18 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 show | parataxis |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 toy | det |
| 20 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 toy | amod |
| 21 | toy | toy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 do | nsubj |
| 22 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 do | aux |
| 23 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 means | ccomp |
| 24 | less | less | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 23 do | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 show | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- pos
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | present | Adverts | toys | effects | Adverts's best obl | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent toy=Recipient | ||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | pictures | for illustration | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | mean | present | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 4 | do | may | the real toy | less property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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, 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:21.
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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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