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title: Sugary drinks are one of the biggest causes of tooth decay and extra… — Sleep and healthy eating · tree and pragmatics
description: Sugary drinks are one of the biggest causes of tooth decay and extra weight in children. Who acts: Sugary drinks. A sentence of the lesson «Sleep and healthy eating» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Sleep and healthy eating, sentence 23

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Sugary drinks are one of the biggest causes of tooth decay and extra weight in children.

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**Who acts:** Sugary drinks · **What happens:** be, cause · **To what, where:** one, tooth decay

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Sleep and healthy eating» 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 (Sugary drinks), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:080-sleep-and-healthy-eating.lesson:23
# text = Sugary drinks are one of the biggest causes of tooth decay and extra weight in children.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 080-sleep-and-healthy-eating.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): no change
1	Sugary	sugary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	drinks	drink	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	biggest	big	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	8	amod	_	_
8	causes	cause	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	tooth	tooth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	decay	decay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	extra	extra	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	weight	weight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **is a** | present | Sugary drinks | one |  |  |  | of the biggest causes of tooth decay and extra weight in children | tree rules |
| 2 | **cause** |  |  | tooth decay and extra weight |  |  |  | in children | nom cause «event transitive»: of=patient in=obl |

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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:080-sleep-and-healthy-eating.lesson:23`.

**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): no change. **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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