Advert tricks and offers that are too good to be true, sentence 11
The rule of thumb: if it sounds too good to be true, it almost always is.
Who acts: rule, thumb · What happens: sound, be, rule
This is a sentence of the lesson «Advert tricks and offers that are too good to be true» 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 (rule, thumb), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 rule | det |
| 2 | rule | rule | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 is | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 thumb | case |
| 4 | thumb | thumb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 rule | nmod |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 18 is | punct |
| 6 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 8 sounds | mark |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 sounds | nsubj |
| 8 | sounds | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 is | advcl |
| 9 | too | too | ADV | _ | 10 good | advmod |
| 10 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 sounds | xcomp |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 true | mark |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 true | cop |
| 13 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 good | xcomp |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 sounds | punct |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 is | nsubj |
| 16 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 17 always | advmod |
| 17 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 18 is | advmod |
| 18 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 rule | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert, hedge=0
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sound a condition, not said to happen | present | rule | good property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | is | to-infinitive | rule not said here | true property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | present | the rule of thumb | always property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | rule | thumb | nom rule «cognition intransitive»: of=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:281-advert-tricks-and-too-good-offers.lesson:11.
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): R6-punct-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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