--- title: People lose a lot of money every year to fortune tellers and other t… — Illusions that fool the eye and adverts that foo… · tree and pragmatics description: People lose a lot of money every year to fortune tellers and other tricks that use guesses that fit almost anyone. Who acts: People, other tricks, guesses. 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 --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/280-illusions-and-adverts/31/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Illusions that fool the eye and advert…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/280-illusions-and-adverts/) / 31 # Illusions that fool the eye and adverts that fool the wallet, sentence 31 People lose a lot of money every year to fortune tellers and other tricks that use guesses that fit almost anyone. **Who acts:** People, other tricks, guesses · **What happens:** lose, use, fit · **To what, where:** lot, guesses, anyone 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 (People, other tricks, guesses), 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:31 # text = People lose a lot of money every year to fortune tellers and other tricks that use guesses that fit almost anyone. # 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): no change 1 People people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 lose lose VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 lot lot NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 7 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 8 det _ _ 8 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl:unmarked _ _ 9 to to ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 fortune fortune NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 11 tellers teller NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 13 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 tricks trick NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 conj _ _ 15 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 16 nsubj _ _ 16 use use VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 acl:relcl _ _ 17 guesses guess NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obj _ _ 18 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 19 nsubj _ _ 19 fit fit VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 acl:relcl _ _ 20 almost almost ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 21 anyone anyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 19 obj _ _ 22 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lose** | present | People | a lot of money | | | year | to fortune tellers and other tricks | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Eventuality | | 2 | **use** | present | other tricks | guesses | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent guess=Patient | | 3 | **fit** | present | guesses | anyone | | | | | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anyone=Patient | 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:31`. **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): no change. **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…, 30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/280-illusions-and-adverts/30/) - next →: [Advert tricks and offers that are too…, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/281-advert-tricks-and-too-good-offers/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/280-illusions-and-adverts/)