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

A number like "30% more fun" measures nothing real; if nobody can say how it was measured, the number is decoration.

Who acts: number, nobody · What happens: measure, say, be · To what, where: nothing, number, decoration · 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 (number, nobody), 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	2 number	det
2	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 measures	nsubj
3	like	like	ADP	_	8 fun	case
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 fun	punct
5	30	30	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 %	nummod
6	%	%	SYM	Number=Sing	7 more	obl:unmarked
7	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 fun	amod
8	fun	fun	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 number	nmod
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 fun	punct
10	measures	measure	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	10 measures	obj
12	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 nothing	amod
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 say	punct
14	if	if	SCONJ	_	17 say	mark
15	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	17 say	nsubj
16	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 say	aux
17	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 measures	parataxis
18	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	21 measured	advmod
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 measured	nsubj:pass
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 measured	aux:pass
21	measured	measure	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 say	ccomp
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 decoration	punct
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 number	det
24	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 decoration	nsubj
25	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 decoration	cop
26	decoration	decoration	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 measured	conj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 measures	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	measure	present	a number like more fun	nothing	vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme nothing=Value
2	say speech: assert a condition, not said to happen	can	nobody		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	measure	past · passive		number	vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: subject=Value
4	is a	present	the number	decoration	tree rules

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:8.

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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