--- title: A survey asks people questions; "9 out of 10" might mean only 10 peo… — Adverts and how they work on you · tree and pragmatics description: A survey asks people questions; "9 out of 10" might mean only 10 people were asked, so small or chosen groups can mislead. Who acts: survey, 9, small groups. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (survey, 9, small groups), 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:8 # text = A survey asks people questions; "9 out of 10" might mean only 10 people were asked, so small or chosen groups can mislead. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 survey survey NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 asks ask VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 compound _ _ 5 questions question NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 6 ; ; PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 7 " " PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=8:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 8 9 9 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 14 nsubj _ _ 9 out out ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 10 10 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 8 nmod _ _ 12 " " PUNCT '' _ 8 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=14:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_ 13 might might AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 14 mean mean VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 parataxis _ _ 15 only only ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 16 10 10 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 17 nummod _ _ 17 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nsubj:pass _ _ 18 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 aux:pass _ _ 19 asked ask VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 14 ccomp _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 21 so so ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 22 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 23 or or CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 chosen choose VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 22 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=22:conj|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 25 groups group NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nsubj _ _ 26 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 27 mislead mislead VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 parataxis _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:conj 28 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: character - polarity: none - hedged: yes - teacher: changed hedge=1 | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | a survey | people questions | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent question=Recipient | | 2 | **mean** | might | 9 out 10 | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past · passive | | 10 people | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | | 4 | **choose** | participle | small groups *not said here* | | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **mislead** | can | small groups | | | | | | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | 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:money:033-adverts-and-how-they-work-on-you.lesson:8`. **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, R8-pos-agree ×2. **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: [Adverts and how they work on you, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/33-adverts-and-how-they-work-on-you/7/) - next →: [Adverts and how they work on you, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/33-adverts-and-how-they-work-on-you/9/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/33-adverts-and-how-they-work-on-you/)