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title: Big "SALE!!!" signs, "was £600, now £400" and "up to 70% off" can mi… — Unit prices and sales that are not really sales · tree and pragmatics
description: Big "SALE!!!" signs, "was £600, now £400" and "up to 70% off" can mislead: the trainers may be £60 before and after, and "up to" may mean just two things at 70% off and the rest at 10%. Who acts: Big SALE signs. A sentence of the lesson «Unit prices and sales that are not really sales» of the money 
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# Unit prices and sales that are not really sales, sentence 2

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Big "SALE!!!" signs, "was £600, now £400" and "up to 70% off" can mislead: the trainers may be £60 before and after, and "up to" may mean just two things at 70% off and the rest at 10%.

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**Who acts:** Big SALE signs · **What happens:** up, mislead up, mean · **To what, where:** two things

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Unit prices and sales that are not really sales» of the money 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 SALE signs), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:money:013-unit-prices-and-sales-that-are-not-really-sales.lesson:2
# text = Big "SALE!!!" signs, "was £600, now £400" and "up to 70% off" can mislead: the trainers may be £60 before and after, and "up to" may mean just two things at 70% off and the rest at 10%.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = money
# lesson = 013-unit-prices-and-sales-that-are-not-really-sales.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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
2	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	_
3	SALE	sale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
4	!!!	!!!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
6	signs	sign	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=6:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
10	£	£	SYM	$	_	6	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj
11	600	600	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	14	advmod	_	_
14	£	£	SYM	$	_	10	conj	_	_
15	400	400	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
16	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=14:punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	_
19	up	up	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	70	70	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	_
22	%	%	SYM	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
23	off	off	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
24	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	26	punct	_	_
25	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	mislead	mislead	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
27	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	32	punct	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	trainers	trainer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nsubj	_	_
30	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
31	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	cop	_	_
32	£	£	SYM	$	_	26	obl	_	_
33	60	60	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	32	nummod	_	_
34	before	before	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	after	after	ADV	RB	_	34	conj	_	_
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
39	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	40	punct	_	_
40	up	up	ADP	RP	_	26	compound:prt	_	_
41	to	to	SCONJ	IN	_	44	mark	_	_
42	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	44	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=44:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_
43	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	44	aux	_	_
44	mean	mean	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	advcl	_	_
45	just	just	ADV	RB	_	46	advmod	_	_
46	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	47	nummod	_	_
47	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	44	obj	_	_
48	at	at	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
49	70	70	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	50	nummod	_	_
50	%	%	SYM	NN	Number=Sing	47	nmod	_	_
51	off	off	ADP	RP	_	47	compound:prt	_	_
52	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	54	cc	_	_
53	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
54	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	conj	_	_
55	at	at	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
56	10	10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	57	nummod	_	_
57	%	%	SYM	NN	Number=Sing	54	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=44:obl
58	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	26	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **up** *in a quote* | present | Big SALE signs *not said here* |  |  |  |  | off *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **mislead up** | can | Big SALE signs |  |  |  |  | before *property* | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **mean** | may | Big SALE signs *not said here* | two things and the rest |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Topic |

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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:money:013-unit-prices-and-sales-that-are-not-really-sales.lesson:2`.

**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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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