--- title: Eat at least something simple such as toast, fruit or cereal before… — Breakfast, the register, the timetable, corridor… · tree and pragmatics description: Eat at least something simple such as toast, fruit or cereal before school; the brain needs food to concentrate, and you may feel tired or grumpy by mid-morning without it. Who acts: you, brain. 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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 (you, brain), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:329-breakfast-register-timetable-corridors-drills-pickup-phones.lesson:6 # text = Eat at least something simple such as toast, fruit or cereal before school; the brain needs food to concentrate, and you may feel tired or grumpy by mid-morning without it. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 329-breakfast-register-timetable-corridors-drills-pickup-phones.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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Eat eat VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 at at ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 3 least least ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 4 nmod _ _ 4 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 1 obj _ _ 5 simple simple ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:amod 6 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP 8 case _ _ 7 as as ADP IN _ 6 fixed _ _ 8 toast toast NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 fruit fruit NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 conj _ _ 11 or or CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 cereal cereal NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 conj _ _ 13 before before ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 school school NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT : _ 18 punct _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 brain brain NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 18 needs need VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=1:conj 19 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 20 to to PART TO _ 21 mark _ _ 21 concentrate concentrate VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 acl _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 24 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 25 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 26 feel feel VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=1:conj 27 tired tired ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 xcomp _ _ 28 or or CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 grumpy grumpy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 conj _ _ 30 by by ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 mid-morning mid-morning NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 32 without without ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 obl _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **eat** | imperative | you *not said here* | something | | least | 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 | | 4 | **feel** | may | you | | | | | by mid-morning; without brain; tired *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | 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:everyday:329-breakfast-register-timetable-corridors-drills-pickup-phones.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): R5-strong ×2, 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. 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