Coffee, tea, wine and the pub, sentence 6

Too much caffeine can make people jittery, give them a fast heartbeat and stop them sleeping well, and then they drink more coffee because they are tired.

Who acts: much caffeine, people · What happens: make, give, stop, sleep, drink, be · To what, where: people, fast heartbeat, more coffee

This is a sentence of the lesson «Coffee, tea, wine and the pub» of the adult life 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 (much caffeine, people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Too	too	ADV	_	2 much	advmod
2	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 caffeine	amod
3	caffeine	caffeine	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 make	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 make	aux
5	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 make	obj
7	jittery	jittery	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 make	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 give	punct
9	give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 make	conj
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 give	iobj
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 heartbeat	det
12	fast	fast	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 heartbeat	amod
13	heartbeat	heartbeat	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 give	obj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 stop	cc
15	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	9 give	conj
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 stop	obj
17	sleeping	sleep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 stop	xcomp
18	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	17 sleeping	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 drink	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 drink	cc
21	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	23 drink	advmod
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 drink	nsubj
23	drink	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 make	conj
24	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	25 coffee	amod
25	coffee	coffee	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 drink	obj
26	because	because	SCONJ	_	29 tired	mark
27	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 tired	nsubj
28	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 tired	cop
29	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 drink	advcl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 make	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	make	can	much caffeine	people			jittery property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset people=Product
2	give	infinitive	much caffeine not said here	a fast heartbeat	people			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient heartbeat=Theme
3	stop	infinitive	much caffeine not said here	people				tree rules
4	sleep	gerund	much caffeine not said here				well property	vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	drink	present	people	more coffee		then		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coffee=Patient
6	is	present	people				tired 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, 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:adult-life:027-coffee-tea-wine-and-the-pub.lesson:6.

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 ×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.

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