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title: Adverts show toys at their best, sometimes with effects; «pictures a… — Illusions that fool the eye and adverts that foo… · tree and pragmatics
description: Adverts show toys at their best, sometimes with effects; «pictures are for illustration» means the real toy may do less. Who acts: Adverts, pictures, real toy. 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 with
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# Illusions that fool the eye and adverts that fool the wallet, sentence 21

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Adverts show toys at their best, sometimes with effects; «pictures are for illustration» means the real toy may do less.

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**Who acts:** Adverts, pictures, real toy · **What happens:** show, be, mean, do · **To what, where:** toys, effects · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Adverts, pictures, real toy), 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:21
# text = Adverts show toys at their best, sometimes with effects; «pictures are for illustration» means the real toy may do less.
# 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): R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Adverts	advert	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	show	show	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	toys	toy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
5	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:nmod:poss
6	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	2	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:amod
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	10	advmod	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	effects	effect	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:nmod
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
12	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	_
13	pictures	picture	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
14	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	illustration	illustration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	ccomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:csubj
17	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=18:punct
18	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:ccomp
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	toy	toy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
22	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	ccomp	_	_
24	less	less	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	23	advmod	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: pos
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **show** | present | Adverts | toys |  | effects |  | Adverts's best *obl* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent toy=Recipient |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | pictures |  |  |  |  | for illustration | tree rules |
| 3 | **mean** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **do** | may | the real toy |  |  |  |  | less *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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.

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**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:21`.

**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 ×3, 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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