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title: Adverts show toys at their best, sometimes with effects, and the rea… — Harmful pranks, April Fools' tricks, hidden adve… · tree and pragmatics
description: Adverts show toys at their best, sometimes with effects, and the real toy may be smaller or do less. Who acts: Adverts, real toy. A sentence of the lesson «Harmful pranks, April Fools' tricks, hidden adverts and too-good-to-be-true offers» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dep
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# Harmful pranks, April Fools' tricks, hidden adverts and too-good-to-be-true offers, sentence 16

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Adverts show toys at their best, sometimes with effects, and the real toy may be smaller or do less.

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**Who acts:** Adverts, real toy · **What happens:** show, be, do · **To what, where:** toys, best

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Harmful pranks, April Fools' tricks, hidden adverts and too-good-to-be-true offers» 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 (Adverts, real toy), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:334-pranks-april-fools-adverts-and-too-good-offers.lesson:16
# text = Adverts show toys at their best, sometimes with effects, and the real toy may be smaller or do less.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 334-pranks-april-fools-adverts-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, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Adverts	advert	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	show	show	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	toys	toy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	2	obl	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	2	advmod	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	effects	effect	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	toy	toy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
16	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	cop	_	_
18	smaller	small	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	2	conj	_	_
19	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	conj	_	_
21	less	less	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	20	advmod	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **show** | present | Adverts | toys |  | Adverts's best |  | with effects; sometimes *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent toy=Recipient |
| 2 | **is** | may | the real toy |  |  |  |  | small *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **do** | infinitive | the real toy *not said here* |  |  |  |  | less *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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:334-pranks-april-fools-adverts-and-too-good-offers.lesson:16`.

**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, 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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