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title: "Number one" in an advert often shrinks in the small print to number… — Adverts and "8 out of 10 cats" · tree and pragmatics
description: "Number one" in an advert often shrinks in the small print to number one in a tiny group, such as one kind of toy in one shop in one month. Who acts: Number one. 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 pr
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# Adverts and "8 out of 10 cats", sentence 9

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"Number one" in an advert often shrinks in the small print to number one in a tiny group, such as one kind of toy in one shop in one month.

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**Who acts:** Number one · **What happens:** shrink · **To what, where:** advert

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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 one), 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:9
# text = "Number one" in an advert often shrinks in the small print to number one in a tiny group, such as one kind of toy in one shop in one month.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×2
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3:punct
2	Number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	advert	advert	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
8	often	often	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	shrinks	shrink	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	print	print	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	TO	_	16	case	_	_
15	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	group	group	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	25	case	_	_
23	as	as	ADP	IN	_	22	fixed	_	_
24	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	nummod	_	_
25	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	toy	toy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	30	nummod	_	_
30	shop	shop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	33	nummod	_	_
33	month	month	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shrink** | present | Number one |  |  | a advert |  | in the small print; often *property* | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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:9`.

**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): R6-punct-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/).

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