Sleep and healthy eating, sentence 12
Tastes change, so trying a small bite of a new food several times helps you learn to like it.
Who acts: Tastes, trying, you · What happens: change, try, help, learn, like, bite · To what, where: small bite, bite, new food
This is a sentence of the lesson «Sleep and healthy eating» 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 (Tastes, trying, you), 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 | Tastes | taste | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 change | nsubj |
| 2 | change | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 trying | punct |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 trying | advmod |
| 5 | trying | try | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 helps | csubj |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 bite | det |
| 7 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 bite | amod |
| 8 | bite | bite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 trying | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 food | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 food | det |
| 11 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 food | amod |
| 12 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bite | nmod |
| 13 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 times | amod |
| 14 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 trying | obl:unmarked |
| 15 | helps | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 change | parataxis |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 learn | nsubj |
| 17 | learn | learn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 helps | xcomp |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 like | mark |
| 19 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 learn | xcomp |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 like | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 change | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | change | present | Tastes | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | try | gerund | a small bite of a new food | time | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bite=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | help | present | trying | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | learn | infinitive | you | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | like | to-infinitive | you not said here | bite | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=Theme | ||||
| 6 | bite | a new food | nom bite «state transitive»: of=patient |
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:080-sleep-and-healthy-eating.lesson:12.
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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