Illusions that fool the eye and adverts that fool the wallet, sentence 31
People lose a lot of money every year to fortune tellers and other tricks that use guesses that fit almost anyone.
Who acts: People, other tricks, guesses · What happens: lose, use, fit · To what, where: lot, guesses, anyone
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 (People, other tricks, guesses), 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 | People | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 lose | nsubj |
| 2 | lose | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 lot | det |
| 4 | lot | lot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lose | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 money | case |
| 6 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lot | nmod |
| 7 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 year | det |
| 8 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lose | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 tellers | case |
| 10 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 tellers | compound |
| 11 | tellers | teller | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 lose | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 tricks | cc |
| 13 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 tricks | amod |
| 14 | tricks | trick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 tellers | conj |
| 15 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 use | nsubj |
| 16 | use | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 tricks | acl:relcl |
| 17 | guesses | guess | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 use | obj |
| 18 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 fit | nsubj |
| 19 | fit | fit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 guesses | acl:relcl |
| 20 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 21 anyone | advmod |
| 21 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 19 fit | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 lose | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose | present | People | a lot of money | year | to fortune tellers and other tricks | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Eventuality | ||
| 2 | use | present | other tricks | guesses | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent guess=Patient | ||||
| 3 | fit | present | guesses | anyone | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anyone=Patient |
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:31.
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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