Adverts and "8 out of 10 cats", sentence 3
Two questions crack most adverts: "Out of how many?" and "Compared with what?" A shampoo that makes hair "70% shinier" than not washing at all has only beaten a muddy dog.
Who acts: Two questions, shampoo · What happens: crack, compare, make, not wash, beat · To what, where: most adverts, hair, muddy dog
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 (Two questions, shampoo), 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 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 questions | nummod |
| 2 | questions | question | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 crack | nsubj |
| 3 | crack | crack | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 adverts | amod |
| 5 | adverts | advert | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 crack | obj |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 many | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 many | punct |
| 8 | Out | out | ADP | _ | 11 many | case |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 many | case |
| 10 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 many | advmod |
| 11 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 adverts | conj |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 11 many | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 many | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 Compared | cc |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 Compared | punct |
| 16 | Compared | compare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 adverts | advcl |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 what | case |
| 18 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 Compared | obl |
| 19 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 16 Compared | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 Compared | punct |
| 21 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 shampoo | det |
| 22 | shampoo | shampoo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 beaten | nsubj |
| 23 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 makes | nsubj |
| 24 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 shampoo | acl:relcl |
| 25 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 makes | obj |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 29 shinier | punct |
| 27 | 70 | 70 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 28 % | nummod |
| 28 | % | % | SYM | Number=Sing | 29 shinier | obl:unmarked |
| 29 | shinier | shiny | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 24 makes | xcomp |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 29 shinier | punct |
| 31 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 33 washing | mark |
| 32 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 33 washing | advmod |
| 33 | washing | wash | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 24 makes | parataxis |
| 34 | at | at | ADV | _ | 33 washing | advmod |
| 35 | all | all | ADV | _ | 34 at | fixed |
| 36 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 38 beaten | aux |
| 37 | only | only | ADV | _ | 38 beaten | advmod |
| 38 | beaten | beat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 crack | parataxis |
| 39 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 41 dog | det |
| 40 | muddy | muddy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 dog | amod |
| 41 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 beaten | obj |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 crack | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | crack | present | Two questions | most adverts | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location advert=Theme | ||||
| 2 | compare in a quote | participle | Two questions not said here | with most adverts | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Patient with what=Co-Patient | ||||
| 3 | make | present | a shampoo | hair | shiny property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset hair=Product | |||
| 4 | not wash | gerund | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | beat | present · perfect | a shampoo | a muddy dog | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location dog=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:3.
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): R6-punct-agree ×5, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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