The best ever and shocking: adverts and headlines, sentence 7
The wise reader looks past the big gold letters for the small print and the real facts: the label on the side of the box, the size of the toy, the actual temperature, who is paying for the praise.
Who acts: wise reader, actual temperature · What happens: look, pay
This is a sentence of the lesson «The best ever and shocking: adverts and headlines» of the language 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 (wise reader, actual temperature), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 reader | det |
| 2 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 reader | amod |
| 3 | reader | reader | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 looks | nsubj |
| 4 | looks | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | past | past | ADP | _ | 9 letters | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 letters | det |
| 7 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 letters | amod |
| 8 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 letters | compound |
| 9 | letters | letter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 looks | obl |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 print | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 print | det |
| 12 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 print | amod |
| 13 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 letters | nmod | ||
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 facts | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 facts | det |
| 16 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 facts | amod |
| 17 | facts | fact | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 print | conj |
| 18 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 20 label | punct |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 label | det |
| 20 | label | label | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 facts | appos |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 side | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 side | det |
| 23 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 label | nmod |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 box | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 box | det |
| 26 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 side | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 size | punct |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 size | det |
| 29 | size | size | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 label | conj |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 toy | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 toy | det |
| 32 | toy | toy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 size | nmod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 temperature | punct |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 temperature | det |
| 35 | actual | actual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 temperature | amod |
| 36 | temperature | temperature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 label | conj |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 paying | punct |
| 38 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 40 paying | nsubj |
| 39 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 40 paying | aux |
| 40 | paying | pay | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 36 temperature | acl:relcl |
| 41 | for | for | ADP | _ | 43 praise | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 praise | det |
| 43 | praise | praise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 paying | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 looks | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | present | the wise reader | past the big gold letters for the small print and the real facts | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent past letter=Theme | ||||
| 2 | pay | present · progressive | the actual temperature | for the praise | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for praise=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:language:047-the-best-ever-and-shocking-adverts-and-headlines.lesson:7.
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): 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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