Food, drinks and feeling ill, sentence 9

Children need about six to eight cups of water a day, and more when it is hot or they are active.

Who acts: Children, food · What happens: need, be · To what, where: six cups

This is a sentence of the lesson «Food, drinks and feeling ill» 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 (Children, food), 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	Children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 need	nsubj
2	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	about	about	ADP	_	7 cups	case
4	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 cups	nummod
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 eight	case
6	eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 six	nmod
7	cups	cup	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 need	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 water	case
9	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cups	nmod
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 day	det
11	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 need	obl:unmarked
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 more	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 more	cc
14	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	18 hot	advmod
15	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	18 hot	advmod
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 hot	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 hot	cop
18	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 need	conj
19	or	or	CCONJ	_	22 active	cc
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 active	nsubj
21	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 active	cop
22	active	active	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 hot	conj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 need	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	need	present	Children	six cups of water	day		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot cup=Theme
2	is	present	food			hot property	tree rules
3	is	present	children = child			active 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:everyday:081-food-drinks-and-feeling-ill.lesson:9.

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): R6-punct-agree ×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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