Advert tricks and offers that are too good to be true, sentence 15

For claims like «9 out of 10 dentists recommend», ask how many were asked and who paid for the survey; asking only a few people proves very little.

Who acts: 9 dentists, you, few people, asking · What happens: recommend, ask, pay, prove · To what, where: claims, many, little · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (9 dentists, you, few people, asking), 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	For	for	ADP	_	2 claims	case
2	claims	claim	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 ask	obl
3	like	like	ADP	_	2 claims	case
4	«	«	PUNCT	_	10 recommend	punct
5	9	9	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	9 dentists	nummod
6	out	out	ADP	_	8 10	case
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 10	case
8	10	10	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 9	nmod
9	dentists	dentist	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 recommend	nsubj
10	recommend	recommend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 claims	acl:relcl
11	»	»	PUNCT	_	10 recommend	punct
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 claims	punct
13	ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	15 many	advmod
15	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 asked	nsubj:pass
16	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 asked	aux:pass
17	asked	ask	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 ask	ccomp
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 paid	cc
19	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 paid	nsubj
20	paid	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 asked	conj
21	for	for	ADP	_	23 survey	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 survey	det
23	survey	survey	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 paid	obl
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 proves	punct
25	asking	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	30 proves	csubj
26	only	only	ADV	_	29 people	advmod
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 people	det
28	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 people	amod
29	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 asking	obj
30	proves	prove	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 ask	parataxis
31	very	very	ADV	_	32 little	advmod
32	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 proves	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 ask	punct

Pragmatics

form: command
act: suggest
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed form=imp, act=suggest

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	recommend in a quote	present	9 dentists	claims not said here		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent claim=Theme
2	ask speech: ask	imperative	you not said here		for claims	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	ask speech: ask	past · passive		many		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
4	pay	past			for the survey	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for survey=Theme
5	ask speech: ask	gerund	a few people			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	prove	present	asking	little		vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent little=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:281-advert-tricks-and-too-good-offers.lesson:15.

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 ×2, 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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