--- title: Packaging can make things look bigger than they are; the weight on t… — «Only one left!»: shops and adverts · tree and pragmatics description: Packaging can make things look bigger than they are; the weight on the label tells the truth. Who acts: Packaging, things, weight. 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 claus --- [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/41/) [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/) / 41 # «Only one left!»: shops and adverts, sentence 41 Packaging can make things look bigger than they are; the weight on the label tells the truth. **Who acts:** Packaging, things, weight · **What happens:** make, look, be, tell · **To what, where:** things, truth · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Packaging, things, weight), 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:41 # text = Packaging can make things look bigger than they are; the weight on the label tells the truth. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Packaging packaging NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 2 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 4 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 5 look look VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 xcomp _ _ 6 bigger big ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 5 xcomp _ _ 7 than than SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 8 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 are be VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 advcl _ _ 10 ; ; PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 weight weight NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 13 on on ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 label label NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod _ _ 16 tells tell VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 truth truth NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 19 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | can | Packaging | things | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **look** | infinitive | things *not said here* | | | | | big *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 3 | **does** | present | things *= thing* | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | the weight on the label | the truth | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent truth=Recipient | 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:41`. **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 ×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: [«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/) - next →: [«Only one left!»: shops and adverts, 42](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/441-only-one-left-shops-and-adverts/42/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/441-only-one-left-shops-and-adverts/)