--- title: Mia's dad: "I could get 8 out of 10 cats to prefer a sock if they we… — Adverts and "8 out of 10 cats" · tree and pragmatics description: Mia's dad: "I could get 8 out of 10 cats to prefer a sock if they were hungry enough." Who acts: nobody, cats. 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. --- [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/2/) [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/) / 2 # Adverts and "8 out of 10 cats", sentence 2 Mia's dad: "I could get 8 out of 10 cats to prefer a sock if they were hungry enough." **Who acts:** nobody, cats · **What happens:** get, prefer, be · **To what, where:** 8 cats, sock 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 (nobody, cats), 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:2 # text = Mia's dad: "I could get 8 out of 10 cats to prefer a sock if they were hungry enough." # 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 ×1 1 Mia Mia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod:poss _ _ 2 's 's PART POS _ 1 case _ _ 3 dad dad NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 4 : : PUNCT : _ 8 punct _ _ 5 " " PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ _ 6 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 7 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 8 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 appos _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:parataxis 9 8 8 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 13 nummod _ _ 10 out out ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 10 10 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 9 nmod _ _ 13 cats cat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ _ 14 to to PART TO _ 15 mark _ _ 15 prefer prefer VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 advcl _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 sock sock NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 18 if if SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 19 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 20 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 cop _ _ 21 hungry hungry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 advcl _ _ 22 enough enough ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 23 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ 24 " " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **get** *in a quote* | could | nobody | 8 cats | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cat=Stimulus | | 2 | **prefer** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | nobody *not said here* | a sock | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sock=Stimulus | | 3 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | past | cats *= cat* | | | | | enough, hungry *property* | 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: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): R7-rel-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", 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/176-adverts-and-8-out-of-10-cats/1/) - next →: [Adverts and "8 out of 10 cats", 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/176-adverts-and-8-out-of-10-cats/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/176-adverts-and-8-out-of-10-cats/)