Adverts and how they work on you, sentence 13

Persuasion is trying to change what someone thinks or does; asking "what do they want me to feel?" helps you stay in control.

Who acts: Persuasion, someone, cookies, me, asking, you · What happens: try, change, think, do, ask, want · To what, where: me, you, control · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Persuasion, someone, cookies, me), 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	Persuasion	persuasion	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 trying	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 trying	aux
3	trying	try	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 change	mark
5	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 trying	xcomp
6	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 thinks	obj
7	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	8 thinks	nsubj
8	thinks	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 change	ccomp
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 does	cc
10	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 thinks	conj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 asking	punct
12	asking	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	23 helps	csubj
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 want	punct
14	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	20 feel	obj
15	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 want	aux
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 want	nsubj
17	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 asking	ccomp
18	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 want	obj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 feel	mark
20	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 want	xcomp
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	17 want	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 want	punct
23	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 trying	parataxis
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 helps	obj
25	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 helps	xcomp
26	in	in	ADP	_	27 control	case
27	control	control	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 stay	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 trying	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	try	present · progressive	Persuasion			vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	change not said to happen	to-infinitive	Persuasion not said here			tree rules
3	think speech: other	present	someone			vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=Theme
4	do	present	someone not said here			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	ask speech: ask	gerund				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	want in a quote	present · do-support	cookies = cookie	me		tree rules
7	feel not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	me not said here			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme
8	help	present	asking	you		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary clause=Theme
9	stay	infinitive	you not said here		control	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in control=Location

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:13.

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): R1-cc-next ×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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