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title: A meltdown is not a tantrum for sweets: it is a brain that has had t… — A sibling with a disability or illness, a siblin… · tree and pragmatics
description: A meltdown is not a tantrum for sweets: it is a brain that has had too much noise and light all at once. Who acts: meltdown, brain. A sentence of the lesson «A sibling with a disability or illness, a sibling who left home» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and 
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# A sibling with a disability or illness, a sibling who left home, sentence 3

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A meltdown is not a tantrum for sweets: it is a brain that has had too much noise and light all at once.

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**Who acts:** meltdown, brain · **What happens:** not be, be, have · **To what, where:** tantrum, brain, much noise

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This is a sentence of the lesson «A sibling with a disability or illness, a sibling who left home» 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 (meltdown, brain), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:506-a-sibling-with-a-disability-or-illness-or-who-left-home.lesson:3
# text = A meltdown is not a tantrum for sweets: it is a brain that has had too much noise and light all at once.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 506-a-sibling-with-a-disability-or-illness-or-who-left-home.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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	meltdown	meltdown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	tantrum	tantrum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	sweets	sweet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	brain	brain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj
14	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
15	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	had	have	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	13	acl:relcl	_	_
17	too	too	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	noise	noise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
22	all	all	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
23	at	at	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	16	obl	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is a** | present | a meltdown | a tantrum |  |  |  | for sweets | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present | meltdown | a brain |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **have** | present · perfect | a brain | much noise and light |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent noise=Patient |

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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:506-a-sibling-with-a-disability-or-illness-or-who-left-home.lesson:3`.

**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): 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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