Alice's fall and her sizes: falling, the centre of the Earth, giants and tiny people, sentence 15

Food, sleep and exercise help children grow well, but no food or drink can make you shrink, or grow a lot in a few seconds as Alice does.

Who acts: Food, children, you, Alice · What happens: help, grow, make, shrink, do · To what, where: children, you, lot

This is a sentence of the lesson «Alice's fall and her sizes: falling, the centre of the Earth, giants and tiny people» of the physics 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, children, you, Alice), 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	Food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 help	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 sleep	punct
3	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Food	conj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 exercise	cc
5	exercise	exercise	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Food	conj
6	help	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 help	obj
8	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 help	xcomp
9	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 grow	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 make	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 make	cc
12	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	13 food	det
13	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 make	nsubj
14	or	or	CCONJ	_	15 drink	cc
15	drink	drink	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 food	conj
16	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 make	aux
17	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 help	conj
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 make	obj
19	shrink	shrink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 make	xcomp
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 grow	punct
21	or	or	CCONJ	_	22 grow	cc
22	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	17 make	conj
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 lot	det
24	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 grow	obj
25	in	in	ADP	_	28 seconds	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 seconds	det
27	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 seconds	amod
28	seconds	second	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 grow	obl
29	as	as	SCONJ	_	31 does	mark
30	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 does	nsubj
31	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 grow	advcl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 help	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	help	present	Food and sleep and exercise	children			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent child=Beneficiary clause=Theme
2	grow	infinitive	children not said here			well property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	make	can	no food or drink	you			tree rules
4	shrink	infinitive	you not said here				vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
5	grow	infinitive	no food or drink not said here	a lot	second		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location lot=Theme
6	do	present	Alice				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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:physics:041-alice-s-fall-and-sizes-falling-the-centre-of-the-earth-giants-and-tiny-people.lesson:15.

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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×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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