Harmful pranks, April Fools' tricks, hidden adverts and too-good-to-be-true offers, sentence 10
An offer that sounds too good to be true usually is: quick money for no work, famous trainers for a tiny price on a strange website, or a stranger offering sweets or a puppy if you come with them.
Who acts: offer, stranger, you · What happens: sound, be, offer, come · To what, where: quick money
This is a sentence of the lesson «Harmful pranks, April Fools' tricks, hidden adverts and too-good-to-be-true offers» 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 (offer, stranger, you), 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 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 offer | det |
| 2 | offer | offer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 money | nsubj |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 sounds | nsubj |
| 4 | sounds | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 offer | acl:relcl |
| 5 | too | too | ADV | _ | 6 good | advmod |
| 6 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 sounds | xcomp |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 true | mark |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 true | cop |
| 9 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 sounds | xcomp |
| 10 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 14 money | advmod |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 money | cop |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 money | punct |
| 13 | quick | quick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 money | amod |
| 14 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 work | case |
| 16 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 17 work | det |
| 17 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 money | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 trainers | punct |
| 19 | famous | famous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 trainers | amod |
| 20 | trainers | trainer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 money | conj |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 price | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 price | det |
| 23 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 price | amod |
| 24 | price | price | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 trainers | nmod |
| 25 | on | on | ADP | _ | 28 website | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 website | det |
| 27 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 website | amod |
| 28 | website | website | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 price | nmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 sweets | punct |
| 30 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 34 sweets | cc |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 stranger | det |
| 32 | stranger | stranger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 sweets | compound |
| 33 | offering | offer | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 32 stranger | acl |
| 34 | sweets | sweet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 money | conj |
| 35 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 37 puppy | cc |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 puppy | det |
| 37 | puppy | puppy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 sweets | conj |
| 38 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 40 come | mark |
| 39 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 40 come | nsubj |
| 40 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 money | advcl |
| 41 | with | with | ADP | _ | 42 them | case |
| 42 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 come | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 money | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sound | present | a offer | good property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | is | to-infinitive | a offer not said here | true property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | a offer | quick money and famous trainers for a tiny price on a strange website or stranger sweets or a puppy | for no work; usually property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | offer | gerund | a stranger not said here | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | come a condition, not said to happen | present | you | with sweets = sweet | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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:334-pranks-april-fools-adverts-and-too-good-offers.lesson:10.
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 ×2, 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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