Let's test it! Experiments and fair tests, sentence 12

A banana is a good snack, but it does not prevent cramp in sport for most people.

Who acts: banana · What happens: be, not prevent · To what, where: good snack, cramp, sport

This is a sentence of the lesson «Let's test it! Experiments and fair tests» 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 (banana), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 banana	det
2	banana	banana	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 snack	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 snack	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 snack	det
5	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 snack	amod
6	snack	snack	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 prevent	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 prevent	cc
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 prevent	nsubj
10	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 prevent	aux
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 prevent	advmod
12	prevent	prevent	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 snack	conj
13	cramp	cramp	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 prevent	obj
14	in	in	ADP	_	15 sport	case
15	sport	sport	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 prevent	obl
16	for	for	ADP	_	18 people	case
17	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	18 people	amod
18	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 prevent	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 snack	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	present	a banana	a good snack					tree rules
2	not prevent	present · do-support	banana	cramp		sport		for most people	vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer cramp=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:029-let-s-test-it-experiments-and-fair-tests.lesson:12.

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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