Adverts and "8 out of 10 cats", sentence 15
A fair test compares a product with other products, not with nothing, so "shinier than not washing" proves almost nothing.
Who acts: fair test, shinier · What happens: compare, not wash, prove · To what, where: product, nothing
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 (fair test, shinier), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 test | det |
| 2 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 test | amod |
| 3 | test | test | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 compares | nsubj |
| 4 | compares | compare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 product | det |
| 6 | product | product | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 compares | obj |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 products | case |
| 8 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 products | amod |
| 9 | products | product | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 product | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 nothing | punct |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 nothing | advmod |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 nothing | case |
| 13 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 4 compares | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 shinier | punct |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 shinier | advmod |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 shinier | punct |
| 17 | shinier | shiny | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 22 proves | nsubj |
| 18 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 20 washing | mark |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 washing | advmod |
| 20 | washing | wash | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 shinier | advcl |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 washing | punct |
| 22 | proves | prove | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 compares | parataxis |
| 23 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 24 nothing | advmod |
| 24 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 22 proves | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 compares | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | compare | present | a fair test | a product | with other products; with nothing | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent product=Patient with nothing=Co-Patient | |||
| 2 | not wash in a quote | gerund | shinier not said here | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | prove | present | shinier | nothing | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=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:15.
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 ×2, R8-pos-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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