Energy drinks: why they're not for kids, sentence 3
The buzz is short and the crash is real: a racing heart, shaky hands, a wired brain at midnight, then a flop like a wet sock, and the can itself says it is not recommended for children.
Who acts: buzz, crash, can · What happens: be, say, not recommend · To what, where: can · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Energy drinks: why they're not for kids» 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 (buzz, crash, can), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 buzz | det |
| 2 | buzz | buzz | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 short | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 short | cop |
| 4 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 real | cc |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 crash | det |
| 7 | crash | crash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 real | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 real | cop |
| 9 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 short | conj |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 heart | punct |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 heart | det |
| 12 | racing | racing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 heart | compound |
| 13 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 short | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 hands | punct |
| 15 | shaky | shaky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 hands | amod |
| 16 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 heart | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 brain | punct |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 brain | det |
| 19 | wired | wire | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 brain | amod |
| 20 | brain | brain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 heart | conj |
| 21 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 midnight | case |
| 22 | midnight | midnight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 brain | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 flop | punct |
| 24 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 26 flop | advmod |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 flop | det |
| 26 | flop | flop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 heart | conj |
| 27 | like | like | ADP | _ | 30 sock | case |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 sock | det |
| 29 | wet | wet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 sock | amod |
| 30 | sock | sock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 flop | nmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 says | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 says | cc |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 can | det |
| 34 | can | can | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 says | nsubj |
| 35 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 34 can | nmod |
| 36 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 short | conj |
| 37 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 recommended | nsubj:pass |
| 38 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 40 recommended | aux:pass |
| 39 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 40 recommended | advmod |
| 40 | recommended | recommend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 36 says | ccomp |
| 41 | for | for | ADP | _ | 42 children | case |
| 42 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 recommended | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 short | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the buzz | a racing heart and shaky hands and a wired brain at midnight and a flop like a wet sock obl; short property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | the crash | real property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | present | the can can | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | not recommend | present · passive | can | for children | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Theme for child=Attribute |
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:052-energy-drinks-why-theyre-not-for-kids.lesson:3.
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, R8-pos-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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