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title: Picture a stranger's advert: "Brand-new trainers worth £400, today o… — Olympiad: saving plans and offers too good to be… · tree and pragmatics
description: Picture a stranger's advert: "Brand-new trainers worth £400, today only £10!" No real shop sells £400 trainers for £10, so they are fake, stolen or a trick to get your card details - if it sounds too good to be true, it almost always is. Who acts: you, real shop, trainers, shop. A sentence of the le
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# Olympiad: saving plans and offers too good to be true ★★★, sentence 2

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Picture a stranger's advert: "Brand-new trainers worth £400, today only £10!" No real shop sells £400 trainers for £10, so they are fake, stolen or a trick to get your card details - if it sounds too good to be true, it almost always is.

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**Who acts:** you, real shop, trainers, shop, your · **What happens:** picture, sell, be, steal, get, sound · **To what, where:** advert, £ trainers, card details

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: saving plans and offers too good to be true ★★★» 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, real shop, trainers, shop), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:money:042-olympiad-saving-plans-and-offers-too-good-to-be-true.lesson:2
# text = Picture a stranger's advert: "Brand-new trainers worth £400, today only £10!" No real shop sells £400 trainers for £10, so they are fake, stolen or a trick to get your card details - if it sounds too good to be true, it almost always is.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = money
# lesson = 042-olympiad-saving-plans-and-offers-too-good-to-be-true.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2
1	Picture	picture	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	stranger	stranger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	_
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	advert	advert	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	_
8	Brand	Brand	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	_
10	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	trainers	trainer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	appos	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=1:obj
12	worth	worth	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	£	£	SYM	$	_	11	nmod	_	_
14	400	400	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	today	today	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	acl	_	_
17	only	only	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	£	£	SYM	$	_	16	appos	_	_
19	10	10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
20	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
21	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	28	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=28:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:":_
22	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	24	det	_	_
23	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	shop	shop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
25	sells	sell	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
26	£	£	SYM	$	_	28	compound	_	_
27	400	400	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	26	nummod	_	_
28	trainers	trainer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obj	_	_
29	for	for	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	£	£	SYM	$	_	25	obl	_	_
31	10	10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	30	nummod	_	_
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
33	so	so	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
34	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
35	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	36	cop	_	_
36	fake	fake	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	parataxis	_	_
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
38	stolen	steal	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	36	conj	_	_
39	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
40	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	trick	trick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=38:conj
42	to	to	PART	TO	_	43	mark	_	_
43	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	41	acl	_	_
44	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	46	nmod:poss	_	_
45	card	card	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	compound	_	_
46	details	detail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	obj	_	_
47	-	-	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=50:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:::_
48	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	50	mark	_	_
49	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	50	nsubj	_	_
50	sounds	sound	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
51	too	too	ADV	RB	_	52	advmod	_	_
52	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	xcomp	_	_
53	to	to	PART	TO	_	55	mark	_	_
54	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	55	cop	_	_
55	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	xcomp	_	_
56	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
57	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	60	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=50:obj
58	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	59	advmod	_	_
59	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	50	advmod	_	_
60	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	59	cop	_	_
61	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: evaluate
- voice: character
- polarity: neg
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **picture** | imperative | you *not said here* | a stranger's advert |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent advert=Theme |
| 2 | **sell** | present | no real shop | £ trainers |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent trainer=Theme for £=Asset |
| 3 | **is** | present | trainers *= trainer* |  |  |  |  | fake *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **steal** | participle | trainers *= trainer* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **get** | to-infinitive | trainers *= trainer* *not said here* | your card details |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer detail=Stimulus |
| 6 | **sound** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | shop |  |  |  |  | good *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 7 | **is** | to-infinitive | shop *not said here* |  |  |  |  | true *property* | tree rules |
| 8 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | almost, always *property* | tree rules |
| 9 | **detail** |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom detail «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

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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:042-olympiad-saving-plans-and-offers-too-good-to-be-true.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×2, 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/).

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