Adverts and how they work on you, sentence 3
Free apps and websites earn money from ads, so your attention is what they sell; that is why ads pop up every few minutes and why trainers follow you around after one search.
Who acts: Free apps, attention, apps, ads, trainers, your · What happens: earn, be, sell, pop up, follow around, attend · To what, where: money, ads, you
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 (Free apps, attention, apps, ads), 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 | Free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 apps | amod |
| 2 | apps | app | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 earn | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 websites | cc |
| 4 | websites | website | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 apps | conj |
| 5 | earn | earn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 earn | obj |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 ads | case |
| 8 | ads | ad | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 earn | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 what | punct |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 what | advmod |
| 11 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 attention | nmod:poss |
| 12 | attention | attention | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 what | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 what | cop |
| 14 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 earn | parataxis |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 sell | nsubj |
| 16 | sell | sell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 what | acl:relcl |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 why | punct |
| 18 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 why | nsubj |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 why | cop |
| 20 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 what | acl:relcl |
| 21 | ads | ad | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 pop | nsubj |
| 22 | pop | pop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 why | advcl:relcl |
| 23 | up | up | ADP | _ | 22 pop | compound:prt |
| 24 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 26 minutes | det |
| 25 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 minutes | amod |
| 26 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 pop | obl |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 follow | cc |
| 28 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 30 follow | advmod |
| 29 | trainers | trainer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 follow | nsubj |
| 30 | follow | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 pop | conj |
| 31 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 30 follow | obj |
| 32 | around | around | ADV | _ | 30 follow | advmod |
| 33 | after | after | ADP | _ | 35 search | case |
| 34 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 35 search | nummod |
| 35 | search | search | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 follow | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 earn | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | earn | present | Free apps and websites | money | ads | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent money=Theme from ad=Source | |||
| 2 | is a | present | your attention | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | sell | present | apps = app | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is | present | why property | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | pop up | present | ads | minute | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | follow around | present | trainers | you | after one search | around property | tree rules | ||
| 7 | attend | your | nom attention «cognition intransitive»: poss=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:money:033-adverts-and-how-they-work-on-you.lesson:3.
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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