--- title: Lactose intolerance means the body cannot digest milk sugar well, be… — Milk, cheese and yoghurt · tree and pragmatics description: Lactose intolerance means the body cannot digest milk sugar well, because some people stop making the enzyme that breaks it down (an enzyme is a helper substance the body makes to break food apart). Who acts: Lactose intolerance, body, people, enzyme. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lactose intolerance, body, people, enzyme), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:chemistry:022-milk-cheese-and-yoghurt.lesson:15 # text = Lactose intolerance means the body cannot digest milk sugar well, because some people stop making the enzyme that breaks it down (an enzyme is a helper substance the body makes to break food apart). # source = school lesson (ours) # course = chemistry # lesson = 022-milk-cheese-and-yoghurt.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): R6-punct-agree ×1 1 Lactose lactose NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 intolerance intolerance NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 6 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 7 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 8 advmod _ _ 8 digest digest VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 ccomp _ _ 9 milk milk NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 sugar sugar NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 11 well well ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 13 because because SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 14 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 15 det _ _ 15 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nsubj _ _ 16 stop stop VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 advcl _ _ 17 making make VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 16 xcomp _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 enzyme enzyme NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 20 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 21 nsubj _ _ 21 breaks break VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 acl:relcl _ _ 22 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 obj _ _ 23 down down ADP RP _ 21 compound:prt _ _ 24 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 30 punct _ _ 25 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 enzyme enzyme NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 27 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 cop _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 helper helper NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 compound _ _ 30 substance substance NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 parataxis _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 33 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 acl:relcl _ _ 34 to to PART TO _ 35 mark _ _ 35 break break VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 33 xcomp _ _ 36 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obj _ _ 37 apart apart ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 38 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 30 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=33:punct 39 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present | Lactose intolerance | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **not** **digest** | can | the body | milk sugar | | | | well *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **stop** | present | some people | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | | 4 | **make** | gerund | some people *not said here* | the enzyme | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset enzyme=Product | | 5 | **break down** | present | the enzyme | enzyme | | | | | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | | 6 | **is a** | present | a enzyme | a helper substance | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **make** | present | the body | a helper substance *not said here* | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **break** | to-infinitive | a helper substance *not said here* | food | | | | apart *property* | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer food=Patient | 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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. 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