--- title: "Recommended by dentists" without saying which dentists or how many… — Adverts and "8 out of 10 cats" · tree and pragmatics description: "Recommended by dentists" without saying which dentists or how many is a vague claim; dentists recommend fluoride toothpaste in general, and most brands have it. Who acts: dentists, most brands. 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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 (dentists, most brands), 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:7 # text = "Recommended by dentists" without saying which dentists or how many is a vague claim; dentists recommend fluoride toothpaste in general, and most brands have it. # 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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ _ 2 Recommended recommend VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 3 by by ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 dentists dentist NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl:agent _ _ 5 " " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4:punct 6 without without SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 7 saying say VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 advcl _ _ 8 which which DET WDT PronType=Int 9 det _ _ 9 dentists dentist NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obj _ _ 10 or or CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 11 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 12 advmod _ _ 12 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:amod 13 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 vague vague ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 claim claim NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 conj _ _ 17 ; ; PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 dentists dentist NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nsubj _ _ 19 recommend recommend VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 20 fluoride fluoride NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 compound _ _ 21 toothpaste toothpaste NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 22 in in ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 general general ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 obl _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 26 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 27 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=27:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RBS:Degree=Sup 27 brands brand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nsubj _ _ 28 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:parataxis 29 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 obj _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **recommend** *in a quote* | participle | | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | which dentists or a vague claim | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is a** | present | which dentists or a vague claim *not said here* | a vague claim | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **recommend** | present | dentists | fluoride toothpaste | | general | | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent toothpaste=Theme | | 5 | **have** | present | most brands | toothpaste | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | 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:7`. **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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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/). - ← previous: [Adverts and "8 out of 10 cats", 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/176-adverts-and-8-out-of-10-cats/6/) - next →: [Adverts and "8 out of 10 cats", 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/176-adverts-and-8-out-of-10-cats/8/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/176-adverts-and-8-out-of-10-cats/)