Breakfast, the school day and honest homework, sentence 6
Eat something simple before school, such as toast, fruit or cereal; the brain needs food to concentrate.
Who acts: you, brain · What happens: eat, need, concentrate · To what, where: something, food
This is a sentence of the lesson «Breakfast, the school day and honest homework» 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 | Eat | eat | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 1 Eat | obj |
| 3 | simple | simple | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 something | amod |
| 4 | before | before | ADP | _ | 5 school | case |
| 5 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Eat | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 toast | punct |
| 7 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 9 toast | case |
| 8 | as | as | ADP | _ | 7 such | fixed |
| 9 | toast | toast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 something | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 fruit | punct |
| 11 | fruit | fruit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 toast | conj |
| 12 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 cereal | cc |
| 13 | cereal | cereal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 toast | conj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 needs | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 brain | det |
| 16 | brain | brain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 needs | nsubj |
| 17 | needs | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Eat | parataxis |
| 18 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 needs | obj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 concentrate | mark |
| 20 | concentrate | concentrate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 food | acl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 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 | imperative | you not said here | something | before school | such toast and fruit or cereal | 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:306-breakfast-the-school-day-and-homework.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×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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