Energy drinks: why they're not for kids, sentence 7
In 2025 the UK government was reported to have announced a ban on selling high-caffeine energy drinks to under-16s in England.
Who acts: ban · What happens: report, announce, sell · To what, where: UK government, 2025, ban, caffeine energy drinks, 16s
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 (ban), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 2025 | case |
| 2 | 2025 | 2025 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 reported | obl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 government | det |
| 4 | UK | UK | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 government | compound |
| 5 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 reported | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 reported | aux:pass |
| 7 | reported | report | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 announced | mark |
| 9 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 announced | aux |
| 10 | announced | announce | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 reported | xcomp |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 ban | det |
| 12 | ban | ban | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 announced | obj |
| 13 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 14 selling | mark |
| 14 | selling | sell | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 ban | acl |
| 15 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 caffeine | amod |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 high | punct |
| 17 | caffeine | caffeine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 drinks | compound |
| 18 | energy | energy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 drinks | compound |
| 19 | drinks | drink | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 selling | obj |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 16s | case |
| 21 | under | under | ADP | _ | 23 16s | case |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 under | punct |
| 23 | 16s | 16 | NOUN | Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card | 14 selling | obl |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 England | case |
| 25 | England | England | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 16s | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 reported | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | report | past · passive | the UK government | 2025 | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: subject=Theme clause=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | announce speech: other | to-infinitive · perfect | a ban | vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ban=Theme | |||||
| 3 | sell | gerund | a ban not said here | caffeine energy drinks | 16s in England | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent drink=Theme to 16=Recipient |
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:7.
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): R5-strong ×2, 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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