Adverts and "8 out of 10 cats", sentence 0

An advert is made by someone who wants your money, so it shows the best bits, hides the catch in tiny letters and picks words that sound bigger than they are.

Who acts: someone, advert, words · What happens: make, want, show, hide, pick, sound · To what, where: advert, money, best bits, catch, tiny letters, words

This is a sentence of the lesson «Adverts and "8 out of 10 cats"» of the world 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 (someone, advert, words), 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	4 made	nsubj:pass
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 made	aux:pass
4	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	by	by	ADP	_	6 someone	case
6	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 made	obl
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 wants	nsubj
8	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 someone	acl:relcl
9	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 money	nmod:poss
10	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 wants	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 shows	punct
12	so	so	ADV	_	14 shows	advmod
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 shows	nsubj
14	shows	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 wants	conj
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 bits	det
16	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	17 bits	amod
17	bits	bit	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 shows	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 hides	punct
19	hides	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 shows	conj
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 catch	det
21	catch	catch	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 hides	obj
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 letters	case
23	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 letters	amod
24	letters	letter	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 hides	obl
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 picks	cc
26	picks	pick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 hides	conj
27	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 picks	obj
28	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 sound	nsubj
29	sound	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 words	acl:relcl
30	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	29 sound	xcomp
31	than	than	SCONJ	_	33 are	mark
32	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 are	nsubj
33	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 bigger	advcl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 made	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: neg
teacher: changed act=assert, polarity=neg

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	make	present · passive	someone	a advert			vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Product
2	want	present		your money			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot money=Theme
3	show	present	advert	the best bits			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent bit=Recipient
4	hide	present	advert not said here	the catch	tiny letters		vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent catch=Patient in letter=Location
5	pick	present	advert not said here	words			vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Patient
6	sound	present	words			big property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
7	does	present	words = word				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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:world:176-adverts-and-8-out-of-10-cats.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): R5-strong ×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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