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title: Children do not get diabetes from eating too many sweets; it is nobo… — Getting better, caring for others and medicines · tree and pragmatics
description: Children do not get diabetes from eating too many sweets; it is nobody's fault. Who acts: Children, sugar. A sentence of the lesson «Getting better, caring for others and medicines» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Getting better, caring for others and medicines, sentence 8

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Children do not get diabetes from eating too many sweets; it is nobody's fault.

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**Who acts:** Children, sugar · **What happens:** not get, eat, be · **To what, where:** diabetes, many sweets, fault

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Getting better, caring for others and medicines» 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 (Children, sugar), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:082-getting-better-and-medicines.lesson:8
# text = Children do not get diabetes from eating too many sweets; it is nobody's fault.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 082-getting-better-and-medicines.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 ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	diabetes	diabetes	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur
6	from	from	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
7	eating	eat	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:obl
8	too	too	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	sweets	sweet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
14	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	16	nmod:poss	_	_
15	's	's	PART	POS	_	14	case	_	_
16	fault	fault	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	_
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 | **not** **get** | present · do-support | Children | diabetes |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer diabetes=Stimulus |
| 2 | **eat** | gerund | Children *not said here* | many sweets |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sweet=Patient |
| 3 | **is a** | present | sugar | nobody's fault |  |  |  |  | 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:082-getting-better-and-medicines.lesson:8`.

**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 ×2, R8-pos-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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