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title: A rumbling tummy, low energy and grumpiness can be signs of hunger. — Tiredness, hunger and thirst: the body's signals · tree and pragmatics
description: A rumbling tummy, low energy and grumpiness can be signs of hunger. Who acts: rumbling tummy. A sentence of the lesson «Tiredness, hunger and thirst: the body's signals» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Tiredness, hunger and thirst: the body's signals, sentence 10

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A rumbling tummy, low energy and grumpiness can be signs of hunger.

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**Who acts:** rumbling tummy · **What happens:** rumble, be · **To what, where:** signs

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Tiredness, hunger and thirst: the body's signals» 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 (rumbling tummy), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:009-body-signals.lesson:10
# text = A rumbling tummy, low energy and grumpiness can be signs of hunger.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 009-body-signals.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	3	det	_	_
2	rumbling	rumble	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	amod	_	_
3	tummy	tummy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	low	low	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	energy	energy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:appos
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	grumpiness	grumpiness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
9	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	cop	_	_
11	signs	sign	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	hunger	hunger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	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 | **rumble** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | can | a rumbling tummy and low energy and grumpiness | signs |  |  |  | of hunger | 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:009-body-signals.lesson:10`.

**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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