Harmful pranks, April Fools' tricks, hidden adverts and too-good-to-be-true offers, sentence 16
Adverts show toys at their best, sometimes with effects, and the real toy may be smaller or do less.
Who acts: Adverts, real toy · What happens: show, be, do · To what, where: toys, best
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 (Adverts, real toy), 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 | Adverts | advert | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 show | nsubj |
| 2 | show | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | toys | toy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 show | obj |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 best | case |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 best | nmod:poss |
| 6 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 2 show | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 effects | punct |
| 8 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 2 show | advmod |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 effects | case |
| 10 | effects | effect | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 show | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 smaller | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 smaller | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 toy | det |
| 14 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 toy | amod |
| 15 | toy | toy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 smaller | nsubj |
| 16 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 smaller | aux |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 smaller | cop |
| 18 | smaller | small | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 2 show | conj |
| 19 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 20 do | cc |
| 20 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 smaller | conj |
| 21 | less | less | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 20 do | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 show | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | present | Adverts | toys | Adverts's best | with effects; sometimes property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent toy=Recipient | ||
| 2 | is | may | the real toy | small property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | do | infinitive | the real toy not said here | less property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: 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:334-pranks-april-fools-adverts-and-too-good-offers.lesson:16.
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, R8-pos-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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