Illusions that fool the eye and adverts that fool the wallet, sentence 28

A family in Florida bought a toy drone after an exciting advert; at home it flew for a few minutes, crashed and broke, and it was nothing like the advert.

Who acts: family · What happens: buy, fly, crash, break, be · To what, where: toy drone, home, nothing

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 (family), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 family	det
2	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bought	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Florida	case
4	Florida	Florida	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 family	nmod
5	bought	buy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 drone	det
7	toy	toy	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 drone	compound
8	drone	drone	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bought	obj
9	after	after	ADP	_	12 advert	case
10	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 advert	det
11	exciting	exciting	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 advert	amod
12	advert	advert	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bought	obl
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 flew	punct
14	at	at	ADP	_	15 home	case
15	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 flew	obl
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 flew	nsubj
17	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 bought	parataxis
18	for	for	ADP	_	21 minutes	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 minutes	det
20	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 minutes	amod
21	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 flew	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 crashed	punct
23	crashed	crash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 flew	conj
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 broke	cc
25	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 crashed	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 nothing	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 nothing	cc
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 nothing	nsubj
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 nothing	cop
30	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 bought	conj
31	like	like	ADP	_	33 advert	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 advert	det
33	advert	advert	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 nothing	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 bought	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	buy	past	a family in Florida	a toy drone		after a exciting advert		vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drone=Theme
2	fly	past	family		home	minute		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at home=Location
3	crash	past	family not said here					vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	break	past	family not said here					vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
5	is a	past	family	nothing			like the advert	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:28.

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, R7-rel-agree ×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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