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title: Swimming after a snack is fine; the old one-hour rule has no real ev… — The night sky and outdoor myths · tree and pragmatics
description: Swimming after a snack is fine; the old one-hour rule has no real evidence, but do not swim when very full or tired. Who acts: Swimming, old hour rule. A sentence of the lesson «The night sky and outdoor myths» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# The night sky and outdoor myths, sentence 15

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Swimming after a snack is fine; the old one-hour rule has no real evidence, but do not swim when very full or tired.

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**Who acts:** Swimming, old hour rule · **What happens:** swim, be, have, not swim · **To what, where:** real evidence

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The night sky and outdoor myths» 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 (Swimming, old hour rule), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:240-night-sky-and-outdoor-myths.lesson:15
# text = Swimming after a snack is fine; the old one-hour rule has no real evidence, but do not swim when very full or tired.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 240-night-sky-and-outdoor-myths.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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	Swimming	swim	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	csubj	_	_
2	after	after	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	snack	snack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=14:punct
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
9	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
10	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	_
12	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	rule	rule	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
15	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	17	det	_	_
16	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	evidence	evidence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	22	advmod	_	_
22	swim	swim	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:parataxis
23	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	25	mark	_	_
24	very	very	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	advcl	_	_
26	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	tired	tired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	conj	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **swim** | gerund |  |  |  |  | after a snack |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | Swimming |  |  |  |  | fine *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **have** | present | the old hour rule | no real evidence |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent evidence=Patient |
| 4 | **not** **swim** | infinitive · do-support | the old hour rule *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «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:240-night-sky-and-outdoor-myths.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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1. **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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