--- title: For claims like «9 out of 10 dentists recommend», ask how many were… — Advert tricks and offers that are too good to be… · tree and pragmatics description: For claims like «9 out of 10 dentists recommend», ask how many were asked and who paid for the survey; asking only a few people proves very little. Who acts: 9 dentists, you, few people, asking. 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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 (9 dentists, you, few people, asking), 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:15 # text = For claims like «9 out of 10 dentists recommend», ask how many were asked and who paid for the survey; asking only a few people proves very little. # 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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 For for ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 claims claim NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obl _ _ 3 like like ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 4 « « PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct 5 9 9 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 9 nummod _ _ 6 out out ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 10 10 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 5 nmod _ _ 9 dentists dentist NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ _ 10 recommend recommend VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 acl:relcl _ _ 11 » » PUNCT '' _ 10 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct 12 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 13 ask ask VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 14 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 15 advmod _ _ 15 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 nsubj:pass _ _ 16 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 aux:pass _ _ 17 asked ask VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 13 ccomp _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 19 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 20 nsubj _ _ 20 paid pay VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ _ 21 for for ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 survey survey NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 24 ; ; PUNCT : _ 30 punct _ _ 25 asking ask VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 30 csubj _ _ 26 only only ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=25:obl 30 proves prove VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 parataxis _ _ 31 very very ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 32 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 obj _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: suggest - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed form=imp, act=suggest | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **recommend** *in a quote* | present | 9 dentists | claims *not said here* | | | | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent claim=Theme | | 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | for claims | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past · passive | | many | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | | 4 | **pay** | past | | | | | | for the survey | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for survey=Theme | | 5 | **ask** *speech: ask* | gerund | a few people | | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **prove** | present | asking | little | | | | | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent little=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:281-advert-tricks-and-too-good-offers.lesson:15`. **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 ×2, 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. 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