--- title: "8 out of 10 cats prefer it!" sounds huge until the small print says… — Adverts and "8 out of 10 cats" · tree and pragmatics description: "8 out of 10 cats prefer it!" sounds huge until the small print says "based on 10 cats": ten cats, maybe the advert man's own, maybe hungry, and nobody says what the other food was. Who acts: 8 10 cats, small print, nobody, other food. 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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 (8 10 cats, small print, nobody, other food), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:world:176-adverts-and-8-out-of-10-cats.lesson:1 # text = "8 out of 10 cats prefer it!" sounds huge until the small print says "based on 10 cats": ten cats, maybe the advert man's own, maybe hungry, and nobody says what the other food was. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = world # lesson = 176-adverts-and-8-out-of-10-cats.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 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ _ 2 8 8 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 6 compound _ _ 3 out out ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 10 10 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 6 nummod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:nmod 6 cats cat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 7 prefer prefer VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 parataxis _ _ 8 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 obj _ _ 9 ! ! PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ 10 " " PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ _ 11 sounds sound VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 huge huge ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 xcomp _ _ 13 until until SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 print print NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 17 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 advcl _ _ 18 " " PUNCT `` _ 22 punct _ _ 19 based base VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 22 case _ _ 20 on on ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 10 10 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 22 nummod _ _ 22 cats cat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 ccomp _ _ 23 " " PUNCT '' _ 22 punct _ _ 24 : : PUNCT : _ 26 punct _ _ 25 ten ten NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 26 nummod _ _ 26 cats cat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obl _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 28 maybe maybe ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 30 advert advert NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 compound _ _ 31 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nmod:poss _ _ 32 's 's PART POS _ 31 case _ _ 33 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 conj _ _ 34 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 35 maybe maybe ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 36 hungry hungry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 conj _ _ 37 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 39 nobody nobody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 40 nsubj _ _ 40 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 parataxis _ _ 41 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 40 ccomp _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 43 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 amod _ _ 44 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 nsubj _ _ 45 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 41 cop _ _ 46 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **prefer** *in a quote* | present | 8 10 cats | catch | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | | 2 | **sound** | present | | ten cats | | | | huge *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the small print | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **base** *in a quote* | participle | | | | | | | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | nobody | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **is a** | past | the other food | | | | | | tree rules | 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:world:176-adverts-and-8-out-of-10-cats.lesson:1`. **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. **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 "8 out of 10 cats", 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/176-adverts-and-8-out-of-10-cats/0/) - next →: [Adverts and "8 out of 10 cats", 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/176-adverts-and-8-out-of-10-cats/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/176-adverts-and-8-out-of-10-cats/)