Viral facts and chain messages, sentence 14

No food or drink melts belly fat; lemon water is fine to drink, but it does not burn fat, and people who say a drink does may be selling something.

Who acts: food, lemon water, water, people, drink · What happens: melt, be, drink, not burn, say, sell · To what, where: belly fat, fat, something · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Viral facts and chain messages» of the myths 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 (food, lemon water, water, people), 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	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 food	det
2	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 melts	nsubj
3	or	or	CCONJ	_	4 drink	cc
4	drink	drink	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 food	conj
5	melts	melt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	belly	belly	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fat	compound
7	fat	fat	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 melts	obj
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	5 melts	punct
9	lemon	lemon	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 water	compound
10	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 fine	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 fine	cop
12	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 melts	parataxis
13	to	to	PART	_	14 drink	mark
14	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 fine	advcl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 burn	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 burn	cc
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 burn	nsubj
18	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 burn	aux
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 burn	advmod
20	burn	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 fine	parataxis
21	fat	fat	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 burn	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 burn	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 burn	cc
24	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 burn	conj
25	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 say	nsubj
26	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 people	acl:relcl
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 drink	det
28	drink	drink	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 selling	nsubj
29	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 selling	aux
30	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 selling	aux
31	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	32 selling	aux
32	selling	sell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 say	ccomp
33	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	32 selling	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 melts	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
hedged: yes
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	melt	present	no food or drink	belly fat		vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient fat=Result
2	is	present	lemon water		fine property	tree rules
3	drink	to-infinitive	lemon water not said here			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	not burn	present · do-support	water	fat		vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent fat=Theme
5	say speech: assert	present	people			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	sell	may · present · progressive · do-support	a drink	something		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Theme

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:myths:025-viral-facts-and-chain-messages.lesson:14.

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): R1-cc-next ×1, 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.

See the release 0.4.

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