--- title: Fortune tellers and horoscopes use general statements that fit almos… — Illusions that fool the eye and adverts that foo… · tree and pragmatics description: Fortune tellers and horoscopes use general statements that fit almost anyone; there is no evidence they predict the future. Who acts: Fortune tellers, general statements, evidence, tellers. A sentence of the lesson «Illusions that fool the eye and adverts that fool the wallet» of the everyday course --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/280-illusions-and-adverts/14/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Illusions that fool the eye and advert…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/280-illusions-and-adverts/) / 14 # Illusions that fool the eye and adverts that fool the wallet, sentence 14 Fortune tellers and horoscopes use general statements that fit almost anyone; there is no evidence they predict the future. **Who acts:** Fortune tellers, general statements, evidence, tellers · **What happens:** use, fit, be, predict · **To what, where:** general statements, anyone, future This is a sentence of the lesson «Illusions that fool the eye and adverts that fool the wallet» of the everyday 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 (Fortune tellers, general statements, evidence, tellers), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:280-illusions-and-adverts.lesson:14 # text = Fortune tellers and horoscopes use general statements that fit almost anyone; there is no evidence they predict the future. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 280-illusions-and-adverts.lesson # annotation = 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 1 Fortune fortune NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 tellers teller NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 4 horoscopes horoscope NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 conj _ _ 5 use use VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 general general ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 statements statement NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 8 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 9 nsubj _ _ 9 fit fit VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 acl:relcl _ _ 10 almost almost ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 11 anyone anyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 9 obj _ _ 12 ; ; PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 14 expl _ _ 14 is be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 15 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 16 det _ _ 16 evidence evidence NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 17 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 predict predict VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 acl:relcl _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 future future NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 21 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **use** | present | Fortune tellers and horoscopes | general statements | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent statement=Patient | | 2 | **fit** | present | general statements | anyone | | | | | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anyone=Patient | | 3 | **be** | present | no evidence | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **predict** | present | tellers *= teller* | the future | | | | | vn indicate-78 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot future=Topic | 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:everyday:280-illusions-and-adverts.lesson:14`. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Illusions that fool the eye and advert…, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/280-illusions-and-adverts/11/) - next →: [Illusions that fool the eye and advert…, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/280-illusions-and-adverts/15/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/280-illusions-and-adverts/)