--- title: A "best before" date is about quality and a "use by" date is about s… — Browning apples, rotting and mould · tree and pragmatics description: A "best before" date is about quality and a "use by" date is about safety; dry food after its best-before date is often fine, which helps stop waste. Who acts: best date, date. 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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 (best date, date), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:chemistry:023-browning-apples-rotting-and-mould.lesson:17 # text = A "best before" date is about quality and a "use by" date is about safety; dry food after its best-before date is often fine, which helps stop waste. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = chemistry # lesson = 023-browning-apples-rotting-and-mould.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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 " " PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ _ 3 best good ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 6 amod _ _ 4 before before ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 5 " " PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_ 6 date date NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 7 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 8 about about ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 quality quality NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 " " PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ _ 13 use use NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 conj _ _ 14 by by ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 15 " " PUNCT '' _ 19 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=19:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_ 16 date date NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 17 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 cop _ _ 18 about about ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 safety safety NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:nmod 20 ; ; PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 dry dry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 conj _ _ 23 after after ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 25 best good ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 22 parataxis _ _ 26 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 31 punct _ _ 27 before before SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 28 date date NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 29 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 cop _ _ 30 often often ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 31 fine fine ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 parataxis _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 33 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 34 nsubj _ _ 34 helps help VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 parataxis _ _ 35 stop stop VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 34 xcomp _ _ 36 waste waste NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obj _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=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 | **is** | present | best date | | | | before quality and a use and safety and dry food | | tree rules | | 2 | **is** | present | date | | | | | by safety | tree rules | | 3 | **is** | present | date | | | | | fine, often *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **help** | present | | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 5 | **stop** | infinitive | | waste | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality waste=Eventuality | 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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:chemistry:023-browning-apples-rotting-and-mould.lesson:17`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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. 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