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title: Famous people are often paid to say they use a product; a famous fac… — "It's natural so it's healthy" and the miracle c… · tree and pragmatics
description: Famous people are often paid to say they use a product; a famous face is not evidence that it works. Who acts: people, famous face, face. A sentence of the lesson «"It's natural so it's healthy" and the miracle cure» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragm
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# "It's natural so it's healthy" and the miracle cure, sentence 20

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Famous people are often paid to say they use a product; a famous face is not evidence that it works.

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**Who acts:** people, famous face, face · **What happens:** pay, say, use, not be, work · **To what, where:** Famous people, product, evidence · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «"It's natural so it's healthy" and the miracle cure» 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 (people, famous face, face), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:179-its-natural-so-its-healthy-and-the-miracle-cure.lesson:20
# text = Famous people are often paid to say they use a product; a famous face is not evidence that it works.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 179-its-natural-so-its-healthy-and-the-miracle-cure.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	Famous	famous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
4	often	often	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	paid	pay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	_
8	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	use	use	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	ccomp	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	product	product	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	famous	famous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
17	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
18	evidence	evidence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	parataxis	_	_
19	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	works	work	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **pay** | present · passive |  | Famous people |  |  |  | often *property* | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Asset |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **use** | present | people | a product |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent product=Patient |
| 4 | **not** **is a** | present | a famous face | evidence |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **work** | present | face | evidence *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent evidence=Material |

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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:179-its-natural-so-its-healthy-and-the-miracle-cure.lesson:20`.

**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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