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title: A real number can still be a small or unfair test: «8 out of 10 owne… — The best ever and shocking: adverts and headlines · tree and pragmatics
description: A real number can still be a small or unfair test: «8 out of 10 owners» may be only ten owners that the company chose. Who acts: real number, company. A sentence of the lesson «The best ever and shocking: adverts and headlines» of the language course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree
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# The best ever and shocking: adverts and headlines, sentence 18

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A real number can still be a small or unfair test: «8 out of 10 owners» may be only ten owners that the company chose.

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**Who acts:** real number, company · **What happens:** be, choose · **To what, where:** small test, ten owners

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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 (real number, company), 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:18
# text = A real number can still be a small or unfair test: «8 out of 10 owners» may be only ten owners that the company chose.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
4	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
5	still	still	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
6	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	cop	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
8	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
9	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	unfair	unfair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	_
11	test	test	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
12	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
13	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	_
14	8	8	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	appos	_	_
15	out	out	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	fixed	_	_
17	10	10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
18	owners	owner	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	_
19	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=24:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_
20	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
21	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	cop	_	_
22	only	only	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	_
24	owners	owner	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	appos	_	_
25	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	28	obj	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=28:det
27	company	company	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
28	chose	choose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	acl:relcl	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- hedged: yes
- teacher: changed hedge=1

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | can | a real number | a small test |  |  | still |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | may |  | ten owners |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **choose** | past | the company | ten owners |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Theme |

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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:18`.

**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, R6-punct-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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