--- title: The rule of thumb: if it sounds too good to be true, it almost alway… — Advert tricks and offers that are too good to be… · tree and pragmatics description: The rule of thumb: if it sounds too good to be true, it almost always is. Who acts: rule, thumb. A sentence of the lesson «Advert tricks and offers that are too good to be true» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/281-advert-tricks-and-too-good-offers/11/) [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/) / [Advert tricks and offers that are too…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/281-advert-tricks-and-too-good-offers/) / 11 # Advert tricks and offers that are too good to be true, sentence 11 The rule of thumb: if it sounds too good to be true, it almost always is. **Who acts:** rule, thumb · **What happens:** sound, be, rule This is a sentence of the lesson «Advert tricks and offers that are too good to be true» 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 (rule, thumb), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:281-advert-tricks-and-too-good-offers.lesson:11 # text = The rule of thumb: if it sounds too good to be true, it almost always is. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 281-advert-tricks-and-too-good-offers.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): R6-punct-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 rule rule NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 thumb thumb NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 : : PUNCT : _ 18 punct _ _ 6 if if SCONJ IN _ 8 mark _ _ 7 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 sounds sound VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 advcl _ _ 9 too too ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 10 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 xcomp _ _ 11 to to PART TO _ 13 mark _ _ 12 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 13 cop _ _ 13 true true ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 xcomp _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 15 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 16 almost almost ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 17 always always ADV RB PronType=Tot 18 advmod _ _ 18 is be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 19 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=8:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert, hedge=0 | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sound** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | rule | | | | | good *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 2 | **is** | to-infinitive | rule *not said here* | | | | | true *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **be** | present | the rule of thumb | | | | | always *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **rule** | | thumb | | | | | | nom rule «cognition intransitive»: of=agent | 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:281-advert-tricks-and-too-good-offers.lesson:11`. **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): R6-punct-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: [Advert tricks and offers that are too…, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/281-advert-tricks-and-too-good-offers/10/) - next →: [Advert tricks and offers that are too…, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/281-advert-tricks-and-too-good-offers/12/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/281-advert-tricks-and-too-good-offers/)