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title: Targeted ads are chosen for you from what you look at online; cookie… — Adverts and how they work on you · tree and pragmatics
description: Targeted ads are chosen for you from what you look at online; cookies are small files that help websites track you. Who acts: you, cookies, small files, websites. A sentence of the lesson «Adverts and how they work on you» of the money course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the
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# Adverts and how they work on you, sentence 12

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Targeted ads are chosen for you from what you look at online; cookies are small files that help websites track you.

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**Who acts:** you, cookies, small files, websites · **What happens:** target, choose, look, be, help, track · **To what, where:** Targeted ads, small files, websites, you

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Adverts and how they work on you» 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 (you, cookies, small files, websites), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:money:033-adverts-and-how-they-work-on-you.lesson:12
# text = Targeted ads are chosen for you from what you look at online; cookies are small files that help websites track you.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = money
# lesson = 033-adverts-and-how-they-work-on-you.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, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Targeted	target	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	amod	_	_
2	ads	ad	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	chosen	choose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	obl	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	look	look	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	online	online	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:obl
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
14	cookies	cookie	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
15	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
16	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	files	file	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	parataxis	_	_
18	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
19	help	help	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
20	websites	website	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
21	track	track	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	xcomp	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=19:xcomp|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin
22	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **target** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **choose** | present · passive |  | Targeted ads |  |  |  | for you | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: subject=Theme for you=Asset from what=Source |
| 3 | **look** | present | you |  |  |  |  | online *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 4 | **is a** | present | cookies | small files |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **help** | present | small files | websites |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent website=Beneficiary clause=Theme |
| 6 | **track** | infinitive | websites *not said here* | you |  |  |  |  | vn stalk-35.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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:money:033-adverts-and-how-they-work-on-you.lesson:12`.

**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, 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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