Adverts and how they work on you, sentence 5
An advert is a message trying to sell something; a target audience is the group of people it is aimed at.
Who acts: advert, message, target audience, people · What happens: be, try, sell, aim · To what, where: message, something, group, audience
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, message, target audience, people), 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 | trying | try | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 message | acl |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 sell | mark |
| 8 | sell | sell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 trying | xcomp |
| 9 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 8 sell | obj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 group | punct |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 audience | det |
| 12 | target | target | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 audience | compound |
| 13 | audience | audience | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 group | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 group | cop |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 group | det |
| 16 | group | group | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 message | parataxis |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 people | case |
| 18 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 group | nmod |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 aimed | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 aimed | aux:pass |
| 21 | aimed | aim | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 people | acl:relcl |
| 22 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 aimed | obl |
| 23 | . | . | 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 | try | gerund | a message not said here | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | sell not said to happen | to-infinitive | a message not said here | something | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is a | present | a target audience | the group | of people | tree rules | |||
| 5 | aim | present · passive | people not said here | audience | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: subject=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:5.
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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