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title: Too much caffeine can make people jittery, give them a fast heartbea… — Coffee, tea, wine and the pub · tree and pragmatics
description: Too much caffeine can make people jittery, give them a fast heartbeat and stop them sleeping well, and then they drink more coffee because they are tired. Who acts: much caffeine, people. A sentence of the lesson «Coffee, tea, wine and the pub» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school with 
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# Coffee, tea, wine and the pub, sentence 6

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Too much caffeine can make people jittery, give them a fast heartbeat and stop them sleeping well, and then they drink more coffee because they are tired.

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**Who acts:** much caffeine, people · **What happens:** make, give, stop, sleep, drink, be · **To what, where:** people, fast heartbeat, more coffee

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Coffee, tea, wine and the pub» of the adult life 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 (much caffeine, people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:adult-life:027-coffee-tea-wine-and-the-pub.lesson:6
# text = Too much caffeine can make people jittery, give them a fast heartbeat and stop them sleeping well, and then they drink more coffee because they are tired.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = adult-life
# lesson = 027-coffee-tea-wine-and-the-pub.lesson
# annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Too	too	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	caffeine	caffeine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
7	jittery	jittery	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	give	give	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:parataxis
10	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	iobj	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	fast	fast	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	heartbeat	heartbeat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	stop	stop	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
16	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	sleeping	sleep	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:advcl
18	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	17	advmod	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	23	advmod	_	_
22	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	drink	drink	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
24	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	25	amod	_	_
25	coffee	coffee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
27	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
28	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
29	tired	tired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	advcl	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | can | much caffeine | people |  |  |  | jittery *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset people=Product |
| 2 | **give** | infinitive | much caffeine *not said here* | a fast heartbeat | people |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient heartbeat=Theme |
| 3 | **stop** | infinitive | much caffeine *not said here* | people |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **sleep** | gerund | much caffeine *not said here* |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **drink** | present | people | more coffee |  |  | then |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coffee=Patient |
| 6 | **is** | present | people |  |  |  |  | tired *property* | tree rules |

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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.

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**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): R7-rel-agree ×2. **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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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