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title: Famous people are paid to wear and use things in adverts; their skil… — Adverts and "8 out of 10 cats" · tree and pragmatics
description: Famous people are paid to wear and use things in adverts; their skill comes from years of practice, not from the shoes. Who acts: skill. A sentence of the lesson «Adverts and "8 out of 10 cats"» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Adverts and "8 out of 10 cats", sentence 10

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Famous people are paid to wear and use things in adverts; their skill comes from years of practice, not from the shoes.

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**Who acts:** skill · **What happens:** pay, wear, use, come · **To what, where:** Famous people, things, adverts, shoes

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Adverts and "8 out of 10 cats"» of the world 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 (skill), 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:10
# text = Famous people are paid to wear and use things in adverts; their skill comes from years of practice, not from the shoes.
# 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): no change
1	Famous	famous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	people	people	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	paid	pay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	wear	wear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	use	use	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
9	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	adverts	advert	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
13	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	skill	skill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
16	from	from	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	practice	practice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	24	advmod	_	_
22	from	from	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	shoes	shoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **pay** | present · passive |  | Famous people |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **wear** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **use** | infinitive |  | things |  | adverts |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Patient |
| 4 | **come** | present | people's skill |  |  | the shoes | year |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from shoe=Initial\_Location |

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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:world:176-adverts-and-8-out-of-10-cats.lesson:10`.

**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): no change. **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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