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title: Some old rules are myths: you can swim after a normal meal, perhaps… — Sharing, sleep and safe food · tree and pragmatics
description: Some old rules are myths: you can swim after a normal meal, perhaps waiting a little after a very big one. Who acts: old rules, you. A sentence of the lesson «Sharing, sleep and safe food» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Sharing, sleep and safe food, sentence 4

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Some old rules are myths: you can swim after a normal meal, perhaps waiting a little after a very big one.

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**Who acts:** old rules, you · **What happens:** be, swim, wait · **To what, where:** myths, little

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Sharing, sleep and safe food» 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 (old rules, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:209-sharing-sleep-and-safe-food.lesson:4
# text = Some old rules are myths: you can swim after a normal meal, perhaps waiting a little after a very big one.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 209-sharing-sleep-and-safe-food.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	3	det	_	_
2	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	rules	rule	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	myths	myth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	swim	swim	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	_
10	after	after	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	normal	normal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	meal	meal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	waiting	wait	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	obl:unmarked	_	_
19	after	after	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
21	very	very	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
24	.	.	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 | **is a** | present | some old rules | myths |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **swim** | can | you |  |  |  | after a normal meal |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **wait** | gerund | you *not said here* | a little |  |  | after a big one | perhaps *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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:209-sharing-sleep-and-safe-food.lesson:4`.

**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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