Adverts and "8 out of 10 cats", sentence 12

If kids who take vitamin gummies are healthier, it may be because their families also eat well and exercise; going together is not the same as causing.

Who acts: kids, sale, families, going · What happens: take, be, eat, exercise, go together, not be · To what, where: vitamin gummies

This is a sentence of the lesson «Adverts and "8 out of 10 cats"» of the world 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 (kids, sale, families, going), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	8 healthier	mark
2	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 healthier	nsubj
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 take	nsubj
4	take	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 kids	acl:relcl
5	vitamin	vitamin	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gummies	compound
6	gummies	gummy	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 take	obj
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 healthier	cop
8	healthier	healthy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	12 be	advcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 take	punct
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 be	nsubj
11	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 be	aux
12	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
13	because	because	SCONJ	_	17 eat	mark
14	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 families	nmod:poss
15	families	family	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 eat	nsubj
16	also	also	ADV	_	17 eat	advmod
17	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 be	advcl
18	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	17 eat	advmod
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 exercise	cc
20	exercise	exercise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 eat	conj
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 same	punct
22	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 same	csubj
23	together	together	ADV	_	22 going	advmod
24	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 same	cop
25	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 same	advmod
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 same	det
27	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 be	parataxis
28	as	as	SCONJ	_	29 causing	mark
29	causing	cause	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 same	advcl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 be	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: neg
hedged: yes
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	take	present	kids	vitamin gummies		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gummy=Theme
2	is a condition, not said to happen	present	kids		healthy property	tree rules
3	be	may	sale			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	eat	present	kids's families		well property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	exercise	present	kids's families not said here			vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	go together	gerund			together property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	not is	present	going		same property	tree rules
8	cause	gerund	going not said here			vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition

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:world:176-adverts-and-8-out-of-10-cats.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): R8-pos-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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