Adverts and "8 out of 10 cats", sentence 7

"Recommended by dentists" without saying which dentists or how many is a vague claim; dentists recommend fluoride toothpaste in general, and most brands have it.

Who acts: dentists, most brands · What happens: recommend, say, be, have · To what, where: vague claim, fluoride toothpaste, general, toothpaste · 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 (dentists, most brands), 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	_	2 Recommended	punct
2	Recommended	recommend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
3	by	by	ADP	_	4 dentists	case
4	dentists	dentist	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 Recommended	obl:agent
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Recommended	punct
6	without	without	SCONJ	_	7 saying	mark
7	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 Recommended	advcl
8	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	9 dentists	det
9	dentists	dentist	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 saying	obj
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	16 claim	cc
11	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	12 many	advmod
12	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 dentists	conj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 claim	cop
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 claim	det
15	vague	vague	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 claim	amod
16	claim	claim	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 dentists	conj
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 recommend	punct
18	dentists	dentist	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 recommend	nsubj
19	recommend	recommend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 Recommended	conj
20	fluoride	fluoride	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 toothpaste	compound
21	toothpaste	toothpaste	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 recommend	obj
22	in	in	ADP	_	23 general	case
23	general	general	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 recommend	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 have	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 have	cc
26	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	27 brands	amod
27	brands	brand	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 have	nsubj
28	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 recommend	conj
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 have	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Recommended	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	recommend in a quote	participle				vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	gerund	which dentists or a vague claim			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is a	present	which dentists or a vague claim not said here	a vague claim		tree rules
4	recommend	present	dentists	fluoride toothpaste	general	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent toothpaste=Theme
5	have	present	most brands	toothpaste		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

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:7.

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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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.

See the release 0.4.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/176-adverts-and-8-out-of-10-cats/7/