Advert tricks and offers that are too good to be true, sentence 2

A good habit beats all these tricks: slow down, read the label, ask what really changed, and wait a few days before buying.

Who acts: good habit · What happens: beat, slow down, read, ask, change, wait · To what, where: tricks, label · 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 (good habit), 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	3 habit	det
2	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 habit	amod
3	habit	habit	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 beats	nsubj
4	beats	beat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 tricks	det:predet
6	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	7 tricks	det
7	tricks	trick	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 beats	obj
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 slow	punct
9	slow	slow	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 beats	parataxis
10	down	down	ADP	_	9 slow	compound:prt
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 read	punct
12	read	read	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	9 slow	conj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 label	det
14	label	label	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 read	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 ask	punct
16	ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	12 read	conj
17	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	19 changed	nsubj
18	really	really	ADV	_	19 changed	advmod
19	changed	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 ask	ccomp
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 wait	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 wait	cc
22	wait	wait	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	12 read	conj
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 days	det
24	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 days	amod
25	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 wait	obl
26	before	before	SCONJ	_	27 buying	mark
27	buying	buy	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 wait	advcl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 beats	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: suggest
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=suggest

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	beat	present	a good habit	all tricks		vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location trick=Theme
2	slow down	infinitive				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	read	infinitive		the label		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent label=Topic
4	ask speech: ask	infinitive				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	change	past				vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	wait	infinitive			day	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	buy	gerund				vn accept-77.1 «NP V how S»: agent=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:2.

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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