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title: Eat something simple before school, such as toast, fruit or cereal;… — Breakfast, the school day and honest homework · tree and pragmatics
description: Eat something simple before school, such as toast, fruit or cereal; the brain needs food to concentrate. Who acts: you, brain. A sentence of the lesson «Breakfast, the school day and honest homework» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every
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# Breakfast, the school day and honest homework, sentence 6

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Eat something simple before school, such as toast, fruit or cereal; the brain needs food to concentrate.

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**Who acts:** you, brain · **What happens:** eat, need, concentrate · **To what, where:** something, food

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Breakfast, the school day and honest homework» 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 (you, brain), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:306-breakfast-the-school-day-and-homework.lesson:6
# text = Eat something simple before school, such as toast, fruit or cereal; the brain needs food to concentrate.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 306-breakfast-the-school-day-and-homework.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Eat	eat	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	1	obj	_	_
3	simple	simple	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
4	before	before	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	9	case	_	_
8	as	as	ADP	IN	_	7	fixed	_	_
9	toast	toast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:appos
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	fruit	fruit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
12	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	cereal	cereal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=11:conj
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	brain	brain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	needs	need	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=1:conj
18	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	concentrate	concentrate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	acl	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	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 | **eat** | imperative | you *not said here* | something |  |  | before school | such toast and fruit or cereal | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Patient |
| 2 | **need** | present | the brain | food |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot food=Theme |
| 3 | **concentrate** | to-infinitive | the brain *not said here* | food *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent |

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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:306-breakfast-the-school-day-and-homework.lesson:6`.

**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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-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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