--- title: A man paid a fortune teller every week for years because she said ba… — Illusions that fool the eye and adverts that foo… · tree and pragmatics description: A man paid a fortune teller every week for years because she said bad luck was coming; he lost a lot of money and nothing she said ever came true. Who acts: man, Florida, bad luck, luck. 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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 (man, Florida, bad luck, luck), 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:29 # text = A man paid a fortune teller every week for years because she said bad luck was coming; he lost a lot of money and nothing she said ever came true. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 paid pay VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 fortune fortune NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 teller teller NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 7 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 8 det _ _ 8 week week NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl:unmarked _ _ 9 for for ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 11 because because SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 12 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl _ _ 14 bad bad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 luck luck NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 16 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 17 coming come VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 13 ccomp _ _ 18 ; ; PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 lost lose VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 lot lot NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 23 of of ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nmod _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 26 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 30 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:conj 27 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 28 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 advcl _ _ 29 ever ever ADV RB PronType=Ind 30 advmod _ _ 30 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 ccomp _ _ 31 true true ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 xcomp _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **pay** | past | a man | a fortune teller | | | week; year | | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent teller=Asset | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Florida | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **come** | past · progressive | bad luck | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **lose** | past | luck | a lot of money | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Eventuality | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Florida | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **come** | past | nothing | | | | ever | true *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:29`. **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, 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…, 28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/280-illusions-and-adverts/28/) - next →: [Illusions that fool the eye and advert…, 30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/280-illusions-and-adverts/30/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/280-illusions-and-adverts/)