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title: «Brits SIZZLE as Britain hotter than the Sahara» might be true for o… — The best ever and shocking: adverts and headlines · tree and pragmatics
description: «Brits SIZZLE as Britain hotter than the Sahara» might be true for one town against one place for one afternoon; the actual temperature and the weather service's advice are the facts. Who acts: Brits, SIZZLE, actual temperature. A sentence of the lesson «The best ever and shocking: adverts and headl
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# The best ever and shocking: adverts and headlines, sentence 16

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«Brits SIZZLE as Britain hotter than the Sahara» might be true for one town against one place for one afternoon; the actual temperature and the weather service's advice are the facts.

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**Who acts:** Brits, SIZZLE, actual temperature · **What happens:** sizzle, be · **To what, where:** facts

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The best ever and shocking: adverts and headlines» of the language 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 (Brits, SIZZLE, actual temperature), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:language:047-the-best-ever-and-shocking-adverts-and-headlines.lesson:16
# text = «Brits SIZZLE as Britain hotter than the Sahara» might be true for one town against one place for one afternoon; the actual temperature and the weather service's advice are the facts.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = language
# lesson = 047-the-best-ever-and-shocking-adverts-and-headlines.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, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	_
2	Brits	brit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:compound
3	SIZZLE	sizzle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
4	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	Britain	Britain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	hotter	hot	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	advcl	_	_
7	than	than	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Sahara	Sahara	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
10	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
11	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	cop	_	_
13	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
16	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	against	against	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
19	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	_
22	afternoon	afternoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
23	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	35	punct	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	actual	actual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	temperature	temperature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	weather	weather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	service	service	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod:poss	_	_
31	's	's	PART	POS	_	30	case	_	_
32	advice	advice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	_
33	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	35	cop	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	facts	fact	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- hedged: yes
- teacher: changed hedge=1

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sizzle** *in a quote* |  | Brits |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | might | SIZZLE |  |  |  |  | for one town against one place for one afternoon; true *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | present | the actual temperature and the weather service's advice | the facts |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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:language:047-the-best-ever-and-shocking-adverts-and-headlines.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): 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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