--- title: A good habit beats all these tricks: slow down, read the label, ask… — Advert tricks and offers that are too good to be… · tree and pragmatics description: A good habit beats all these tricks: slow down, read the label, ask what really changed, and wait a few days before buying. Who acts: good habit. 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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 (good habit), 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:2 # text = A good habit beats all these tricks: slow down, read the label, ask what really changed, and wait a few days before buying. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 habit habit NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 beats beat VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 7 det:predet _ _ 6 these this DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 7 det _ _ 7 tricks trick NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 8 : : PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 9 slow slow VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 10 down down ADP RP _ 9 compound:prt _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 read read VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:parataxis 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 label label NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 ask ask VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 17 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 19 nsubj _ _ 18 really really ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 19 changed change VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 ccomp _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 wait wait VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:obj 26 before before SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 27 buying buy VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 22 advcl _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: suggest - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=suggest | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **beat** | present | a good habit | all tricks | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location trick=Theme | | 2 | **slow down** | infinitive | | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **read** | infinitive | | the label | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent label=Topic | | 4 | **ask** *speech: ask* | infinitive | | | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **change** | past | | | | | | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **wait** | infinitive | | | | | day | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **buy** | gerund | | | | | | | vn accept-77.1 «NP V how S»: agent=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:2`. **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: [Advert tricks and offers that are too…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/281-advert-tricks-and-too-good-offers/1/) - next →: [Advert tricks and offers that are too…, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/281-advert-tricks-and-too-good-offers/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/281-advert-tricks-and-too-good-offers/)