"It's natural so it's healthy" and the miracle cure, sentence 20

Famous people are often paid to say they use a product; a famous face is not evidence that it works.

Who acts: people, famous face, face · What happens: pay, say, use, not be, work · To what, where: Famous people, product, evidence · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «"It's natural so it's healthy" and the miracle cure» 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 (people, famous face, face), 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	Famous	famous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 people	amod
2	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 paid	nsubj:pass
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 paid	aux:pass
4	often	often	ADV	_	5 paid	advmod
5	paid	pay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 say	mark
7	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 paid	advcl
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 use	nsubj
9	use	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 say	ccomp
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 product	det
11	product	product	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 use	obj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 evidence	punct
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 face	det
14	famous	famous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 face	amod
15	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 evidence	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 evidence	cop
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 evidence	advmod
18	evidence	evidence	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 paid	parataxis
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 works	mark
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 works	nsubj
21	works	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 evidence	acl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 paid	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	pay	present · passive		Famous people	often property	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Asset
2	say speech: assert	to-infinitive				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	use	present	people	a product		vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent product=Patient
4	not is a	present	a famous face	evidence		tree rules
5	work	present	face	evidence not said here		vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent evidence=Material

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:179-its-natural-so-its-healthy-and-the-miracle-cure.lesson:20.

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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