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title: Read the small print, like «batteries not included» or «each sold se… — Illusions that fool the eye and adverts that foo… · tree and pragmatics
description: Read the small print, like «batteries not included» or «each sold separately», because extra parts cost more. Who acts: you, extra parts. 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 its dependency tree a
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# Illusions that fool the eye and adverts that fool the wallet, sentence 22

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Read the small print, like «batteries not included» or «each sold separately», because extra parts cost more.

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**Who acts:** you, extra parts · **What happens:** read, not include, sell, cost · **To what, where:** small print, batteries, more

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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 (you, extra parts), 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:22
# text = Read the small print, like «batteries not included» or «each sold separately», because extra parts cost more.
# 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 ×1
1	Read	read	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	print	print	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	like	like	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
7	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	_
8	batteries	battery	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
10	included	include	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	advcl	_	_
11	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
12	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	_
14	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	conj	_	_
15	sold	sell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl	_	_
16	separately	separately	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
20	extra	extra	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	parts	part	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
22	cost	cost	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	advcl	_	_
23	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	22	obj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RBR:Degree=Cmp
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **read** | imperative | you *not said here* | the small print |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent print=Topic |
| 2 | **not** **include** *in a quote* | participle · passive |  | batteries |  |  |  |  | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **sell** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  |  | separately *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **cost** | present | extra parts | more |  |  |  |  | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme more=Value |

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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:22`.

**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. **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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