Advert tricks and offers that are too good to be true, sentence 21
If you want something just because everyone has it, wait a few days; the feeling often fades.
Who acts: you, everyone, feeling · What happens: want, have, wait, fade · To what, where: something, many
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 (you, everyone, feeling), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 3 want | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 want | nsubj |
| 3 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 wait | advcl |
| 4 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 3 want | obj |
| 5 | just | just | ADV | _ | 8 has | advmod |
| 6 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 8 has | mark |
| 7 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 8 has | nsubj |
| 8 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 want | advcl |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 has | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 has | punct |
| 11 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 fades | parataxis |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 days | det |
| 13 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 days | amod |
| 14 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 wait | obl |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 fades | punct |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 feeling | det |
| 17 | feeling | feeling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 fades | nsubj |
| 18 | often | often | ADV | _ | 19 fades | advmod |
| 19 | fades | fade | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 wait | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want a condition, not said to happen | present | you | something | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot something=Theme | ||||
| 2 | have | present | everyone | many | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 3 | wait | infinitive | day | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | fade | present | the feeling | often property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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:281-advert-tricks-and-too-good-offers.lesson:21.
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, 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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