---
title: A girl in Arizona does not like broccoli at first, but she tries a s… — Sleep and healthy eating · tree and pragmatics
description: A girl in Arizona does not like broccoli at first, but she tries a small bite at a few dinners, and after a while she finds she likes it with cheese. Who acts: girl. A sentence of the lesson «Sleep and healthy eating» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the p
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/80-sleep-and-healthy-eating/4/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Sleep and healthy eating](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/80-sleep-and-healthy-eating/) / 4

# Sleep and healthy eating, sentence 4

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
A girl in Arizona does not like broccoli at first, but she tries a small bite at a few dinners, and after a while she finds she likes it with cheese.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** girl · **What happens:** not like, try, find, like · **To what, where:** broccoli, small bite, few dinners, bite · **Speech:** someone speaks here

<!-- .vabout -->
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 (girl), 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:4
# text = A girl in Arizona does not like broccoli at first, but she tries a small bite at a few dinners, and after a while she finds she likes it with cheese.
# 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): R3-conj-first ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Arizona	Arizona	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	like	like	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	broccoli	broccoli	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	7	obl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	tries	try	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	bite	bite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
18	at	at	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	dinners	dinner	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
24	after	after	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	while	while	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
27	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	finds	find	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=14:conj
29	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	likes	like	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	ccomp	_	_
31	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	obj	_	_
32	with	with	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	cheese	cheese	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .note -->
No stored speech act for this sentence.

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **like** | present · do-support | a girl in Arizona | broccoli |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot broccoli=Theme |
| 2 | **try** | present | girl | a small bite |  | a few dinners |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bite=Eventuality |
| 3 | **find** | present | girl |  |  |  | while |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 4 | **like** | present | girl | bite |  |  |  | with cheese | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=Theme |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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:4`.

**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. **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/).

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [Sleep and healthy eating, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/80-sleep-and-healthy-eating/3/)
- next →: [Sleep and healthy eating, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/80-sleep-and-healthy-eating/5/)
- ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/80-sleep-and-healthy-eating/)

