Adverts and how they work on you, sentence 14

Marketing is everything a company does to sell; cereal with a toy at £3.50 instead of plain cereal at £1.50 means paying £2 for a tiny toy.

Who acts: Marketing, company, cereal · What happens: be, do, sell, mean, pay · To what, where: everything, £ 2 · 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 (Marketing, company, cereal), 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	Marketing	marketing	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 everything	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 everything	cop
3	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 company	det
5	company	company	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 does	nsubj
6	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 everything	acl:relcl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 sell	mark
8	sell	sell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 does	advcl
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 means	punct
10	cereal	cereal	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 means	nsubj
11	with	with	ADP	_	13 toy	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 toy	det
13	toy	toy	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 cereal	nmod
14	at	at	ADP	_	15 £	case
15	£	£	SYM	_	10 cereal	nmod
16	3.50	3.50	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	15 £	nummod
17	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	20 cereal	case
18	of	of	ADP	_	17 instead	fixed
19	plain	plain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 cereal	amod
20	cereal	cereal	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 cereal	nmod
21	at	at	ADP	_	22 £	case
22	£	£	SYM	_	20 cereal	nmod
23	1.50	1.50	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	22 £	nummod
24	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 everything	parataxis
25	paying	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	24 means	ccomp
26	£	£	SYM	_	27 2	compound
27	2	2	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	25 paying	obj
28	for	for	ADP	_	31 toy	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 toy	det
30	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 toy	amod
31	toy	toy	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 paying	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 everything	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Marketing	everything		tree rules
2	do	present	a company			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	sell	to-infinitive	a company not said here			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent
4	mean	present	cereal with a toy instead plain cereal			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	pay	gerund		£ 2	for a tiny toy	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent 2=Asset for toy=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:14.

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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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