Food myths and fads, sentence 1
Tom gets cramp in the 80th minute and yells for a banana, but a banana takes far longer than ten minutes to digest, and scientists think most exercise cramp comes from tired muscles, not low potassium.
Who acts: Tom, banana, scientists, most exercise cramp · What happens: get, yell, take, digest, think, come · To what, where: cramp, tired muscles · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Food myths and fads» 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 (Tom, banana, scientists, most exercise cramp), 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 | Tom | Tom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 gets | nsubj |
| 2 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | cramp | cramp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 gets | obj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 minute | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 minute | det |
| 6 | 80th | 80th | ADJ | NumType=Ord | 7 minute | amod |
| 7 | minute | minute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 gets | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 yells | cc |
| 9 | yells | yell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 gets | conj |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 banana | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 banana | det |
| 12 | banana | banana | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 yells | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 takes | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 takes | cc |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 banana | det |
| 16 | banana | banana | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 takes | nsubj |
| 17 | takes | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 gets | conj |
| 18 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 19 longer | advmod |
| 19 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 17 takes | advmod |
| 20 | than | than | ADP | _ | 22 minutes | case |
| 21 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 minutes | nummod |
| 22 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 longer | obl |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 digest | mark |
| 24 | digest | digest | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 takes | advcl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 think | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 think | cc |
| 27 | scientists | scientist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 think | nsubj |
| 28 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 gets | parataxis |
| 29 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 31 cramp | amod |
| 30 | exercise | exercise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 cramp | compound |
| 31 | cramp | cramp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 comes | nsubj |
| 32 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 think | ccomp |
| 33 | from | from | ADP | _ | 35 muscles | case |
| 34 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 muscles | amod |
| 35 | muscles | muscle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 comes | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 potassium | punct |
| 37 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 39 potassium | advmod |
| 38 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 potassium | amod |
| 39 | potassium | potassium | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 muscles | conj |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 gets | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed polarity=none
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | present | Tom | cramp | minute | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cramp=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | yell speech: express | present | Tom not said here | for a banana | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for banana=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | take | present | a banana | long property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | digest | to-infinitive | a banana not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | think speech: other | present | scientists | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 6 | come | present | most exercise cramp | tired muscles and low potassium | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from muscle=Initial_Location |
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:055-food-myths-and-fads.lesson:1.
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 ×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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