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title: Some bacteria that cause food poisoning do not change how food smell… — Smells that warn · tree and pragmatics
description: Some bacteria that cause food poisoning do not change how food smells or looks. Who acts: bacteria, food. A sentence of the lesson «Smells that warn» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Smells that warn, sentence 15

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Some bacteria that cause food poisoning do not change how food smells or looks.

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**Who acts:** bacteria, food · **What happens:** cause, not change, smell, look · **To what, where:** food poisoning

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Smells that warn» of the everyday 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 (bacteria, food), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:013-smells-that-warn.lesson:15
# text = Some bacteria that cause food poisoning do not change how food smells or looks.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 013-smells-that-warn.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): no change
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	bacteria	bacterium	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
3	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	cause	cause	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
5	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	poisoning	poisoning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
9	change	change	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
10	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	12	advmod	_	_
11	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	smells	smell	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	ccomp	_	_
13	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	looks	look	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	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 | **cause** | present | some bacteria | food poisoning |  |  |  |  | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition poisoning=Patient |
| 2 | **not** **change** | present · do-support | some bacteria |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **smell** | present | food |  |  |  |  |  | vn smell\_emission-43.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **look** | present | food *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |

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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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**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:everyday:013-smells-that-warn.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): no change. **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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