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

Famous people are paid to wear and use things in adverts; their skill comes from years of practice, not from the shoes.

Who acts: skill · What happens: pay, wear, use, come · To what, where: Famous people, things, adverts, shoes

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 (skill), 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	Famous	famous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 people	amod
2	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 paid	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 paid	aux:pass
4	paid	pay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 wear	mark
6	wear	wear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 paid	xcomp
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 use	cc
8	use	use	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 wear	conj
9	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 use	obj
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 adverts	case
11	adverts	advert	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 use	obl
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 comes	punct
13	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 skill	nmod:poss
14	skill	skill	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 comes	nsubj
15	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 paid	parataxis
16	from	from	ADP	_	17 years	case
17	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 comes	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 practice	case
19	practice	practice	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 years	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 shoes	punct
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 shoes	advmod
22	from	from	ADP	_	24 shoes	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 shoes	det
24	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 comes	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 paid	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	pay	present · passive		Famous people			tree rules
2	wear	to-infinitive					vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent
3	use	infinitive		things	adverts		vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Patient
4	come	present	people's skill		the shoes	year	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from shoe=Initial_Location

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:10.

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): no change. 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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