--- title: «Up to 70% off» means only a few things are that cheap; prices like… — Illusions that fool the eye and adverts that foo… · tree and pragmatics description: «Up to 70% off» means only a few things are that cheap; prices like $9.99 or £4.99 are almost the same as the round number. Who acts: few things, prices. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (few things, prices), 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:25 # text = «Up to 70% off» means only a few things are that cheap; prices like $9.99 or £4.99 are almost the same as the round number. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 « « PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ _ 2 Up up ADV RB _ 8 nsubj _ _ 3 to to ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 70 70 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 5 nummod _ _ 5 % % SYM NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 6 off off ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 7 » » PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 8 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 only only ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nsubj _ _ 13 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 14 that that ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:mark|HaikuPos=SCONJ:IN:_ 15 cheap cheap ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 ccomp _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=15:punct 17 prices price NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nsubj _ _ 18 like like ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 $ $ SYM $ _ 17 nmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:appos 20 9.99 9.99 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 19 nummod _ _ 21 or or CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 £ £ SYM $ _ 19 conj _ _ 23 4.99 4.99 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 22 nummod _ _ 24 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 cop _ _ 25 almost almost ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 conj _ _ 28 as as ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 30 round round ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 number number NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present | | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is** | present | a few things | | | | | cheap, that *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **is** | present | prices | | | | | as the round number; almost, same *property* | 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](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:25`. **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): R2-punct-next ×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/). - ← previous: [Illusions that fool the eye and advert…, 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/280-illusions-and-adverts/23/) - next →: [Illusions that fool the eye and advert…, 27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/280-illusions-and-adverts/27/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/280-illusions-and-adverts/)