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title: A family in Ohio ate chicken that was still pink in the middle at a… — Simple cooking and a healthy breakfast · tree and pragmatics
description: A family in Ohio ate chicken that was still pink in the middle at a barbecue; several of them got food poisoning and were sick for days. Who acts: family, chicken, several. A sentence of the lesson «Simple cooking and a healthy breakfast» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its depe
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# Simple cooking and a healthy breakfast, sentence 5

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A family in Ohio ate chicken that was still pink in the middle at a barbecue; several of them got food poisoning and were sick for days.

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**Who acts:** family, chicken, several · **What happens:** eat, be, get · **To what, where:** chicken, middle, food poisoning

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Simple cooking and a healthy breakfast» 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 (family, chicken, several), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:038-simple-cooking-and-breakfast.lesson:5
# text = A family in Ohio ate chicken that was still pink in the middle at a barbecue; several of them got food poisoning and were sick for days.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 038-simple-cooking-and-breakfast.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	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Ohio	Ohio	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	ate	eat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	chicken	chicken	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	still	still	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	pink	pink	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	acl:relcl	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	middle	middle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	at	at	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	barbecue	barbecue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
17	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	nsubj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nmod	_	_
21	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
22	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	poisoning	poisoning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
26	sick	sick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	conj	_	_
27	for	for	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=21: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** | past | a family in Ohio | chicken |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chicken=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | past | chicken |  |  | the middle at a barbecue | still | pink *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **get** | past | several of containers | food poisoning |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer poisoning=Stimulus |
| 4 | **is** | past | several of containers *not said here* |  |  |  | day | sick *property* | tree rules |

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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:038-simple-cooking-and-breakfast.lesson:5`.

**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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