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title: A number like "30% more fun" measures nothing real; if nobody can sa… — Adverts and "8 out of 10 cats" · tree and pragmatics
description: A number like "30% more fun" measures nothing real; if nobody can say how it was measured, the number is decoration. Who acts: number, nobody. 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 c
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# Adverts and "8 out of 10 cats", sentence 8

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A number like "30% more fun" measures nothing real; if nobody can say how it was measured, the number is decoration.

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**Who acts:** number, nobody · **What happens:** measure, say, be · **To what, where:** nothing, number, decoration · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (number, nobody), 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:8
# text = A number like "30% more fun" measures nothing real; if nobody can say how it was measured, the number is decoration.
# 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	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
3	like	like	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	_
5	30	30	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	%	%	SYM	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl:unmarked	_	_
7	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	8	amod	_	_
8	fun	fun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
9	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
10	measures	measure	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	10	obj	_	_
12	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
15	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	17	nsubj	_	_
16	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	parataxis	_	_
18	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	21	advmod	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	measured	measure	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	ccomp	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
25	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
26	decoration	decoration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	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 | **measure** | present | a number like more fun | nothing |  |  |  |  | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme nothing=Value |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* *a condition, not said to happen* | can | nobody |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **measure** | past · passive |  | number |  |  |  |  | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: subject=Value |
| 4 | **is a** | present | the number | decoration |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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:8`.

**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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