A balanced plate for a kid who plays sport, sentence 16
Growing, sporty children need regular meals, and skipping meals leaves them tired, moody and slower and harms growth.
Who acts: sporty children, skipping · What happens: grow, need, skip, leave, harm · To what, where: regular meals, meals, children, growth
This is a sentence of the lesson «A balanced plate for a kid who plays sport» 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 (sporty children, skipping), 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 | Growing | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 need | advcl |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 need | punct |
| 3 | sporty | sporty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 children | amod |
| 4 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 need | nsubj |
| 5 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | regular | regular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 meals | amod |
| 7 | meals | meal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 need | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 leaves | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 leaves | cc |
| 10 | skipping | skip | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 leaves | csubj |
| 11 | meals | meal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 skipping | obj |
| 12 | leaves | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 need | conj |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 leaves | obj |
| 14 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 leaves | xcomp |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 moody | punct |
| 16 | moody | moody | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 tired | conj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 slower | cc |
| 18 | slower | slow | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 14 tired | conj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 harms | cc |
| 20 | harms | harm | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 leaves | conj |
| 21 | growth | growth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 harms | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 need | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | gerund | sporty children not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | need | present | sporty children | regular meals | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot meal=Theme | ||||
| 3 | skip | gerund | meals | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meal=Agent | |||||
| 4 | leave | present | skipping | children = child | tired property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | |||
| 5 | harm | present | skipping not said here | growth | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus growth=Experiencer |
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:054-a-balanced-plate-for-a-kid-who-plays-sport.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): R6-punct-agree ×2, 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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