Adverts and "8 out of 10 cats", sentence 1
"8 out of 10 cats prefer it!" sounds huge until the small print says "based on 10 cats": ten cats, maybe the advert man's own, maybe hungry, and nobody says what the other food was.
Who acts: 8 10 cats, small print, nobody, other food · What happens: prefer, sound, say, base, be · To what, where: catch, ten cats · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (8 10 cats, small print, nobody, other food), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 prefer | punct |
| 2 | 8 | 8 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 cats | compound |
| 3 | out | out | ADP | _ | 5 10 | case |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 10 | case |
| 5 | 10 | 10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 cats | nummod |
| 6 | cats | cat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 prefer | nsubj |
| 7 | prefer | prefer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 sounds | parataxis |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 prefer | obj |
| 9 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 prefer | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 prefer | punct |
| 11 | sounds | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 sounds | xcomp |
| 13 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 17 says | mark |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 print | det |
| 15 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 print | amod |
| 16 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 says | nsubj | ||
| 17 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 huge | advcl |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 cats | punct |
| 19 | based | base | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 cats | case |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 cats | case |
| 21 | 10 | 10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 22 cats | nummod |
| 22 | cats | cat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 says | ccomp |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 cats | punct |
| 24 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 26 cats | punct |
| 25 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 26 cats | nummod |
| 26 | cats | cat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 sounds | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 own | punct |
| 28 | maybe | maybe | ADV | _ | 33 own | advmod |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 man | det |
| 30 | advert | advert | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 man | compound |
| 31 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 own | nmod:poss |
| 32 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 31 man | case |
| 33 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 sounds | conj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 hungry | punct |
| 35 | maybe | maybe | ADV | _ | 36 hungry | advmod |
| 36 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 sounds | conj |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 says | punct |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 says | cc |
| 39 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 40 says | nsubj |
| 40 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 sounds | parataxis |
| 41 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 40 says | ccomp |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 food | det |
| 43 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 food | amod |
| 44 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 what | nsubj |
| 45 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 what | cop |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 sounds | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | prefer in a quote | present | 8 10 cats | catch | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | sound | present | ten cats | huge property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | present | the small print | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | base in a quote | participle | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | present | nobody | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | is a | past | the other food | tree rules |
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:1.
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 ×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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