Growing, skin, hair and food, sentence 6

Careful studies, where neither children nor parents knew who had sugar, found sugar did not make children hyperactive (wildly overactive); excitement at parties is the more likely cause, and the secret mattered, because parents who think a child had sugar tend to notice wilder behaviour.

Who acts: children, Careful studies, sugar, excitement, secret, parents · What happens: know, have, find, not make, be, matter · To what, where: sugar, children, likely cause, wilder behaviour · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (children, 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	14 found	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 knew	punct
4	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	9 knew	advmod
5	neither	neither	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	6 children	cc:preconj
6	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 knew	nsubj
7	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	8 parents	cc
8	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 children	conj
9	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 studies	acl:relcl
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 had	nsubj
11	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 knew	ccomp
12	sugar	sugar	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 had	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 found	punct
14	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	sugar	sugar	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 make	nsubj
16	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 make	aux
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 make	advmod
18	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 found	ccomp
19	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 make	obj
20	hyperactive	hyperactive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 make	xcomp
21	(	(	PUNCT	_	23 overactive	punct
22	wildly	wildly	ADV	_	23 overactive	advmod
23	overactive	overactive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 hyperactive	appos
24	)	)	PUNCT	_	23 overactive	punct
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 excitement	punct
26	excitement	excitement	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 cause	nsubj
27	at	at	ADP	_	28 parties	case
28	parties	party	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 excitement	nmod
29	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 cause	cop
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 cause	det
31	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	32 likely	advmod
32	likely	likely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 cause	amod
33	cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 found	conj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 mattered	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 mattered	cc
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 secret	det
37	secret	secret	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 mattered	nsubj
38	mattered	matter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 cause	conj
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 parents	punct
40	because	because	SCONJ	_	48 tend	mark
41	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	48 tend	nsubj
42	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	43 think	nsubj
43	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	41 parents	acl:relcl
44	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	45 child	det
45	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 had	nsubj
46	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 think	ccomp
47	sugar	sugar	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 had	obj
48	tend	tend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	38 mattered	advcl
49	to	to	PART	_	50 notice	mark
50	notice	notice	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	48 tend	xcomp
51	wilder	wild	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	52 behaviour	amod
52	behaviour	behaviour	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 notice	obj
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 found	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	know	past	children nor parents			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	have	past		sugar		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sugar=Patient
3	find	past	Careful studies			vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	not make	past · do-support	sugar	children	hyperactive property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset child=Product
5	is a	present	excitement at parties	the likely cause		tree rules
6	matter	past	the secret			vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus
7	think speech: other	present	parents			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
8	have	past	a child	sugar		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sugar=Patient
9	tend	present	parents			tree rules
10	notice	to-infinitive	parents not said here	wilder behaviour		vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer behaviour=Stimulus

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:6.

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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