Illusions that fool the eye and adverts that fool the wallet, sentence 29
A man paid a fortune teller every week for years because she said bad luck was coming; he lost a lot of money and nothing she said ever came true.
Who acts: man, Florida, bad luck, luck, nothing · What happens: pay, say, come, lose · To what, where: fortune teller, lot · 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 (man, Florida, bad luck, luck), 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 man | det |
| 2 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 paid | nsubj |
| 3 | paid | pay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 teller | det |
| 5 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 teller | compound |
| 6 | teller | teller | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 paid | obj |
| 7 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 week | det |
| 8 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 paid | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 years | case |
| 10 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 paid | obl |
| 11 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 13 said | mark |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 said | nsubj |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 paid | advcl |
| 14 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 luck | amod |
| 15 | luck | luck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 coming | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 coming | aux |
| 17 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 said | ccomp |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 lost | punct |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 lost | nsubj |
| 20 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 paid | parataxis |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 lot | det |
| 22 | lot | lot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 lost | obj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 money | case |
| 24 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 lot | nmod |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 lot | cc |
| 26 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 30 came | nsubj |
| 27 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 said | nsubj |
| 28 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 lost | advcl |
| 29 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 30 came | advmod |
| 30 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 said | ccomp |
| 31 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 came | xcomp |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 paid | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pay | past | a man | a fortune teller | week; year | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent teller=Asset | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Florida | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | come | past · progressive | bad luck | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | lose | past | luck | a lot of money | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | past | Florida | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | come | past | nothing | ever | true property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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:29.
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 ×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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