Getting ready for school and the school day, sentence 7
You eat at least something simple before school, because the brain needs food to concentrate.
Who acts: You, brain · What happens: eat, need, concentrate · To what, where: something, least, food
This is a sentence of the lesson «Getting ready for school and the school day» of the everyday 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 (You, brain), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 eat | nsubj |
| 2 | eat | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 least | case |
| 4 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 something | nmod |
| 5 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 2 eat | obj |
| 6 | simple | simple | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 something | amod |
| 7 | before | before | ADP | _ | 8 school | case |
| 8 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 eat | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 needs | punct |
| 10 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 13 needs | mark |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 brain | det |
| 12 | brain | brain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 needs | nsubj |
| 13 | needs | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 eat | advcl |
| 14 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 needs | obj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 concentrate | mark |
| 16 | concentrate | concentrate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 food | acl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 eat | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | present | You | something | least | before school | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Patient | ||
| 2 | need | present | the brain | food | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot food=Theme | ||||
| 3 | concentrate | to-infinitive | the brain not said here | food not said here | vn focus-87.1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent |
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:everyday:253-getting-ready-and-the-school-day.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. 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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