I was wrong: changing your mind, sentence 16

Careful studies found that sugar does not make children hyperactive (too full of energy to calm down); excitement at parties is a likelier reason.

Who acts: Careful studies, sugar, excitement · What happens: find, not make, calm down, be · To what, where: children, likelier reason · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «I was wrong: changing your mind» 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 (Careful studies, sugar, excitement), 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	Careful	careful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 studies	amod
2	studies	study	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 found	nsubj
3	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 make	mark
5	sugar	sugar	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 make	nsubj
6	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 make	aux
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 make	advmod
8	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 found	ccomp
9	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 make	obj
10	hyperactive	hyperactive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 make	xcomp
11	(	(	PUNCT	_	13 full	punct
12	too	too	ADV	_	13 full	advmod
13	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 make	advcl
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 energy	case
15	energy	energy	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 full	obl
16	to	to	PART	_	17 calm	mark
17	calm	calm	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 full	advcl
18	down	down	ADP	_	17 calm	compound:prt
19	)	)	PUNCT	_	13 full	punct
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 excitement	punct
21	excitement	excitement	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 reason	nsubj
22	at	at	ADP	_	23 parties	case
23	parties	party	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 excitement	nmod
24	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 reason	cop
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 reason	det
26	likelier	likely	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	27 reason	amod
27	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 found	parataxis
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 found	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	find	past	Careful studies			vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	not make	present · do-support	sugar	children	hyperactive property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset child=Product
3	calm down	to-infinitive	sugar not said here			vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	is a	present	excitement at parties	a likelier reason		tree rules

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:035-i-was-wrong-changing-your-mind.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): 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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