--- title: A fair test compares a product with other products, not with nothing… — Adverts and "8 out of 10 cats" · tree and pragmatics description: A fair test compares a product with other products, not with nothing, so "shinier than not washing" proves almost nothing. Who acts: fair test, shinier. 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 --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/176-adverts-and-8-out-of-10-cats/15/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/) / [Adverts and "8 out of 10 cats"](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/176-adverts-and-8-out-of-10-cats/) / 15 # Adverts and "8 out of 10 cats", sentence 15 A fair test compares a product with other products, not with nothing, so "shinier than not washing" proves almost nothing. **Who acts:** fair test, shinier · **What happens:** compare, not wash, prove · **To what, where:** product, nothing 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 (fair test, shinier), 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:15 # text = A fair test compares a product with other products, not with nothing, so "shinier than not washing" proves almost nothing. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 fair fair ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 test test NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 compares compare VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 product product NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 with with ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 products product NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nmod _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 11 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 13 advmod _ _ 12 with with ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 4 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 14 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 so so ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 16 " " PUNCT `` _ 17 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=17:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 17 shinier shiny ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 22 nsubj _ _ 18 than than SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 19 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 20 advmod _ _ 20 washing wash VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 17 advcl _ _ 21 " " PUNCT '' _ 20 punct _ _ 22 proves prove VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 23 almost almost ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 24 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 22 obj _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **compare** | present | a fair test | a product | | | | with other products; with nothing | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent product=Patient with nothing=Co-Patient | | 2 | **not** **wash** *in a quote* | gerund | shinier *not said here* | | | | | | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **prove** | present | shinier | nothing | | | | | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Theme | 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:15`. **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 ×2, 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/). - ← previous: [Adverts and "8 out of 10 cats", 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/176-adverts-and-8-out-of-10-cats/14/) - next →: [Adverts and "8 out of 10 cats", 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/176-adverts-and-8-out-of-10-cats/16/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/176-adverts-and-8-out-of-10-cats/)