A classmate with diabetes, and other long-term conditions, sentence 16

ADHD is a difference in how the brain manages attention, activity and impulses (sudden urges), and it is not caused by bad parenting or sugar.

Who acts: ADHD, brain, bad parenting · What happens: be, manage, not cause · To what, where: difference, attention, brain

This is a sentence of the lesson «A classmate with diabetes, and other long-term conditions» of the medicine 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 (ADHD, brain, bad parenting), 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	ADHD	adhd	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 difference	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 difference	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 difference	det
4	difference	difference	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	10 attention	case
6	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	9 manages	advmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 brain	det
8	brain	brain	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 manages	nsubj
9	manages	manage	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 difference	acl
10	attention	attention	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 manages	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 activity	punct
12	activity	activity	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 attention	conj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 impulses	cc
14	impulses	impulse	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 attention	conj
15	(	(	PUNCT	_	17 urges	punct
16	sudden	sudden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 urges	amod
17	urges	urge	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 impulses	conj
18	)	)	PUNCT	_	17 urges	punct
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 caused	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 caused	cc
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 caused	nsubj:pass
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 caused	aux:pass
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 caused	advmod
24	caused	cause	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 difference	conj
25	by	by	ADP	_	27 parenting	case
26	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 parenting	amod
27	parenting	parenting	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 caused	obl
28	or	or	CCONJ	_	29 sugar	cc
29	sugar	sugar	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 parenting	conj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 difference	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	present	ADHD	a difference	tree rules
2	manage	present	the brain	attention and activity and impulses and sudden urges	vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attention=Theme
3	not cause	present · passive	bad parenting or sugar	brain	vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition subject=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:medicine:016-a-classmate-with-diabetes-and-other-long-term-conditions.lesson:16.

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. 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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