--- title: A big percentage of a small group means little; always ask «out of h… — «Only one left!»: shops and adverts · tree and pragmatics description: A big percentage of a small group means little; always ask «out of how many?». Who acts: big percentage. A sentence of the lesson ««Only one left!»: shops and adverts» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/441-only-one-left-shops-and-adverts/38/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [«Only one left!»: shops and adverts](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/441-only-one-left-shops-and-adverts/) / 38 # «Only one left!»: shops and adverts, sentence 38 A big percentage of a small group means little; always ask «out of how many?». **Who acts:** big percentage · **What happens:** mean, ask · **To what, where:** little, many This is a sentence of the lesson ««Only one left!»: shops 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 (big percentage), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:441-only-one-left-shops-and-adverts.lesson:38 # text = A big percentage of a small group means little; always ask «out of how many?». # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 441-only-one-left-shops-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): R6-punct-agree ×3, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 percentage percentage NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 group group NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 8 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:xcomp 10 ; ; PUNCT : _ 12 punct _ _ 11 always always ADV RB PronType=Tot 12 advmod _ _ 12 ask ask VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:conj 13 « « PUNCT `` _ 17 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=12:punct 14 out out ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 15 of of ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 17 advmod _ _ 17 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 obl _ _ 18 ? ? PUNCT . _ 17 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=12:punct 19 » » PUNCT '' _ 17 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=12:punct 20 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present | a big percentage of a small group | little | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent little=Topic | | 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | infinitive | | | | many | | always *property* | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: 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:441-only-one-left-shops-and-adverts.lesson:38`. **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 ×3, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [«Only one left!»: shops and adverts, 34](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/441-only-one-left-shops-and-adverts/34/) - next →: [«Only one left!»: shops and adverts, 39](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/441-only-one-left-shops-and-adverts/39/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/441-only-one-left-shops-and-adverts/)