Growing, skin, hair and food, sentence 13

The slogan that breakfast is "the most important meal" was spread partly by cereal advertising; breakfast helps many children concentrate, but scientists debate how special it is.

Who acts: breakfast, cereal advertising, many children, scientists · What happens: be, spread, help, concentrate · To what, where: important meal, slogan, many children

This is a sentence of the lesson «Growing, skin, hair and food» 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 (breakfast, cereal advertising, many children, scientists), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 slogan	det
2	slogan	slogan	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 spread	nsubj:pass
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 meal	mark
4	breakfast	breakfast	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 meal	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 meal	cop
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 meal	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 meal	det
8	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	9 important	advmod
9	important	important	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 meal	amod
10	meal	meal	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 slogan	acl
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 meal	punct
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 spread	aux:pass
13	spread	spread	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
14	partly	partly	ADV	_	13 spread	advmod
15	by	by	ADP	_	17 advertising	case
16	cereal	cereal	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 advertising	compound
17	advertising	advertising	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 spread	obl
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 helps	punct
19	breakfast	breakfast	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 helps	nsubj
20	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 spread	parataxis
21	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 children	amod
22	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 helps	obj
23	concentrate	concentrate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 helps	xcomp
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 debate	punct
25	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 debate	cc
26	scientists	scientist	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 debate	nsubj
27	debate	debate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 helps	conj
28	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	29 special	advmod
29	special	special	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 debate	ccomp
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 special	nsubj
31	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 debate	cop
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 spread	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	breakfast	the important meal		tree rules
2	spread	past · passive	cereal advertising	the slogan	partly property	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location subject=Theme
3	help	present	breakfast	many children		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent child=Beneficiary clause=Theme
4	concentrate	infinitive	many children not said here			vn focus-87.1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent
5	is	present	scientists		debate property	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:006-growing-skin-hair-and-food.lesson:13.

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): R2-punct-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.

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