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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 (praise, things), 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:27 # text = Influencers are often paid to praise things, so their praise is an advert, not a test; check for #ad and read reviews from ordinary buyers. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Influencers influencer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj:pass _ _ 2 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux:pass _ _ 3 often often ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 paid pay VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 6 mark _ _ 6 praise praise VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:advcl 7 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 9 so so ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 10 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 praise praise NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 12 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 cop _ _ 13 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 advert advert NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 parataxis _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 18 advmod _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 test test NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:parataxis 19 ; ; PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 20 check check VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 21 for for ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 # # SYM # Number=Sing 23 compound _ _ 23 ad ad NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 read read VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ _ 26 reviews review NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obj _ _ 27 from from ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 ordinary ordinary ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 buyers buyer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nmod _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **pay** | present · passive | | Influencers | | | | often *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **praise** | to-infinitive | | things | | | | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme | | 3 | **is a** | present | things's praise | a advert and a test | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **check** | infinitive | | | | | | for \# ad | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent for ad=Attribute | | 5 | **read** | infinitive | | reviews | | ordinary buyers | | | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent review=Topic from buyer=Source | | 6 | **praise** | | things *= thing* | | | | | | nom praise «communication transitive»: poss=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:334-pranks-april-fools-adverts-and-too-good-offers.lesson:27`. **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): R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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