Adverts and how they work on you, sentence 0
An advert is a message paid for by someone who wants you to buy something, and it is made very carefully to make you want it.
Who acts: advert, you · What happens: be, pay, want, buy, make · To what, where: message, you, something, advert
This is a sentence of the lesson «Adverts and how they work on you» of the money 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 (advert, 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 advert | det |
| 2 | advert | advert | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 message | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 message | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 message | det |
| 5 | message | message | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | paid | pay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 message | acl |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 paid | obl |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 someone | case |
| 9 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 6 paid | obl |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 wants | nsubj |
| 11 | wants | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 someone | acl:relcl |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 wants | obj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 buy | mark |
| 14 | buy | buy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 wants | xcomp |
| 15 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 14 buy | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 made | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 made | cc |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 made | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 made | aux:pass |
| 20 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 message | conj |
| 21 | very | very | ADV | _ | 22 carefully | advmod |
| 22 | carefully | carefully | ADV | _ | 20 made | advmod |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 make | mark |
| 24 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 made | advcl |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 want | nsubj |
| 26 | want | want | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 make | xcomp |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 want | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 message | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a advert | a message | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | pay | participle | a message not said here | by someone | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | want | present | you | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | buy not said to happen | to-infinitive | you not said here | something | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Theme | ||||
| 5 | make | present · passive | advert | carefully property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | ||||
| 6 | make | to-infinitive | tree rules | ||||||
| 7 | want | infinitive | you | advert | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=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:money:033-adverts-and-how-they-work-on-you.lesson:0.
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.
See the release 0.4.
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