--- title: A family in Florida bought a toy drone after an exciting advert; at… — Illusions that fool the eye and adverts that foo… · tree and pragmatics description: A family in Florida bought a toy drone after an exciting advert; at home it flew for a few minutes, crashed and broke, and it was nothing like the advert. Who acts: family. 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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 (family), 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:28 # text = A family in Florida bought a toy drone after an exciting advert; at home it flew for a few minutes, crashed and broke, and it was nothing like the advert. # 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Florida Florida PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 bought buy VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 toy toy NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 drone drone NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 9 after after ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 10 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 exciting exciting ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 advert advert NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 13 ; ; PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 14 at at ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 16 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 flew fly VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 18 for for ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 minutes minute NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obl _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 23 crashed crash VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=23:cc 25 broke break VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 conj _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 28 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 29 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 cop _ _ 30 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 5 conj _ _ 31 like like ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 advert advert NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nmod _ _ 34 . . 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 | **buy** | past | a family in Florida | a toy drone | | | after a exciting advert | | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drone=Theme | | 2 | **fly** | past | family | | | home | minute | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at home=Location | | 3 | **crash** | past | family *not said here* | | | | | | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **break** | past | family *not said here* | | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **is a** | past | family | nothing | | | | like the advert | 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:28`. **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): R1-cc-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×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/). - ← previous: [Illusions that fool the eye and advert…, 27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/280-illusions-and-adverts/27/) - next →: [Illusions that fool the eye and advert…, 29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/280-illusions-and-adverts/29/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/280-illusions-and-adverts/)