Illusions that fool the eye and adverts that fool the wallet, sentence 25

«Up to 70% off» means only a few things are that cheap; prices like $9.99 or £4.99 are almost the same as the round number.

Who acts: few things, prices · What happens: mean, be · 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 (few things, prices), 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	«	«	PUNCT	_	2 Up	punct
2	Up	up	ADV	_	8 means	nsubj
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 %	case
4	70	70	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 %	nummod
5	%	%	SYM	Number=Sing	2 Up	nmod
6	off	off	ADV	_	2 Up	advmod
7	»	»	PUNCT	_	2 Up	punct
8	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	only	only	ADV	_	15 cheap	advmod
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 things	det
11	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 things	amod
12	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 cheap	nsubj
13	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 cheap	cop
14	that	that	ADV	_	15 cheap	advmod
15	cheap	cheap	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 means	ccomp
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 same	punct
17	prices	price	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 same	nsubj
18	like	like	ADP	_	19 $	case
19	$	$	SYM	_	17 prices	nmod
20	9.99	9.99	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	19 $	nummod
21	or	or	CCONJ	_	22 £	cc
22	£	£	SYM	_	19 $	conj
23	4.99	4.99	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	22 £	nummod
24	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 same	cop
25	almost	almost	ADV	_	27 same	advmod
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 same	det
27	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 cheap	conj
28	as	as	ADP	_	31 number	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 number	det
30	round	round	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 number	amod
31	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 same	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 means	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	mean	present			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	a few things	cheap, that property	tree rules
3	is	present	prices	as the round number; almost, same property	tree rules

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:25.

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): R2-punct-next ×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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