Breakfast before a match and food after, sentence 8
If time is short, a small easy snack like a banana or a slice of toast gives some fuel without a heavy stomach.
Who acts: time, small easy snack · What happens: be, give, slice · To what, where: fuel, toast
This is a sentence of the lesson «Breakfast before a match and food after» 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 (time, small easy snack), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 short | mark |
| 2 | time | time | 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 | 18 gives | advcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 short | punct |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 snack | det |
| 7 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 snack | amod |
| 8 | easy | easy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 snack | amod |
| 9 | snack | snack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 gives | nsubj |
| 10 | like | like | ADP | _ | 12 banana | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 banana | det |
| 12 | banana | banana | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 snack | nmod |
| 13 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 15 slice | cc |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 slice | det |
| 15 | slice | slice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 banana | conj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 toast | case |
| 17 | toast | toast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 slice | nmod |
| 18 | gives | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 20 fuel | det |
| 20 | fuel | fuel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 gives | obj |
| 21 | without | without | ADP | _ | 24 stomach | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 stomach | det |
| 23 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 stomach | amod |
| 24 | stomach | stomach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 gives | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 gives | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a condition, not said to happen | present | time | short property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | give | present | a small easy snack like a banana or a slice of toast | some fuel | without a heavy stomach | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fuel=Theme | |||
| 3 | slice | toast | nom slice «possession 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:medicine:053-breakfast-before-a-match-and-food-after.lesson:8.
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): no change. 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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