Adverts and "8 out of 10 cats", sentence 5

Laugh at the advert's trick, not at the person who believed it: grown-ups fall for these every day, which is exactly why the tricks are used.

Who acts: you, person, grown ups, day, advert · What happens: laugh, believe, grow, fall, be, use · To what, where: trick, advert, tricks

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 (you, person, grown ups, day), 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	Laugh	laugh	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	at	at	ADP	_	6 trick	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 advert	det
4	advert	advert	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 trick	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 advert	case
6	trick	trick	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Laugh	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 person	punct
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 person	advmod
9	at	at	ADP	_	11 person	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 person	det
11	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Laugh	conj
12	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 believed	nsubj
13	believed	believe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 person	acl:relcl
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 believed	obj
15	:	:	PUNCT	_	1 Laugh	punct
16	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 ups	amod
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 ups	punct
18	ups	up	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 fall	nsubj
19	fall	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Laugh	parataxis
20	for	for	ADP	_	21 these	case
21	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	19 fall	obl
22	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	23 day	det
23	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 fall	obl:unmarked
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 why	punct
25	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 why	nsubj
26	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 why	cop
27	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	28 why	advmod
28	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	23 day	acl:relcl
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 tricks	det
30	tricks	trick	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 used	nsubj:pass
31	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 used	aux:pass
32	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 why	advcl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Laugh	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	imperative	you not said here		the advert's trick			vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	believe	past	the person	advert				vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
3	grow	participle						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	fall	present	grown ups			day	for these	vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for this=Theme
5	is	present	every day				exactly, why property	tree rules
6	use	present · passive		the tricks				vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
7	trick		the advert					nom trick «act transitive»: poss=agent

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:5.

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): 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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