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title: Product placement is when companies pay for their products to appear… — Kind jokes, teasing, pranks, April Fools, illusi… · tree and pragmatics
description: Product placement is when companies pay for their products to appear in films or shows; it is advertising hidden in entertainment. Who acts: Product placement, companies, placement. A sentence of the lesson «Kind jokes, teasing, pranks, April Fools, illusions and adverts» of the everyday course of M
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# Kind jokes, teasing, pranks, April Fools, illusions and adverts, sentence 20

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Product placement is when companies pay for their products to appear in films or shows; it is advertising hidden in entertainment.

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**Who acts:** Product placement, companies, placement · **What happens:** be, pay, appear, hide · **To what, where:** films, advertising, entertainment

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Kind jokes, teasing, pranks, April Fools, illusions and adverts» 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 (Product placement, companies, placement), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:313-kind-jokes-pranks-april-fools-and-adverts.lesson:20
# text = Product placement is when companies pay for their products to appear in films or shows; it is advertising hidden in entertainment.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 313-kind-jokes-pranks-april-fools-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 ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Product	product	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	placement	placement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
5	companies	company	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	pay	pay	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	products	product	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	appear	appear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:acl
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	films	film	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
14	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	shows	show	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	_
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:aux
19	advertising	advertising	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:parataxis|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part
20	hidden	hide	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	acl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:advcl
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	entertainment	entertainment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | present | Product placement |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **pay** | present | companies |  |  |  |  | for companies's products | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for product=Theme |
| 3 | **appear** | to-infinitive | companies *not said here* |  |  | films or shows |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in film=Location |
| 4 | **is a** | present | placement | advertising |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **hide** | participle |  | advertising *not said here* |  | entertainment |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in entertainment=Location |

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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.

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**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:313-kind-jokes-pranks-april-fools-and-adverts.lesson:20`.

**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 ×2, R8-pos-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/).

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