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title: A girl in Glasgow skipped breakfast and lunch to finish a project; b… — Tiredness, hunger and thirst: the body's signals · tree and pragmatics
description: A girl in Glasgow skipped breakfast and lunch to finish a project; by the afternoon she was shaky and could not think, and she fell off her bike on the way home because she felt faint. Who acts: girl. A sentence of the lesson «Tiredness, hunger and thirst: the body's signals» of the everyday course 
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# Tiredness, hunger and thirst: the body's signals, sentence 6

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A girl in Glasgow skipped breakfast and lunch to finish a project; by the afternoon she was shaky and could not think, and she fell off her bike on the way home because she felt faint.

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**Who acts:** girl · **What happens:** skip, finish, be, not think, fall off, feel · **To what, where:** breakfast, project, bike, way

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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 (girl), 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:6
# text = A girl in Glasgow skipped breakfast and lunch to finish a project; by the afternoon she was shaky and could not think, and she fell off her bike on the way home because she felt faint.
# 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): no change
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Glasgow	Glasgow	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	skipped	skip	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	breakfast	breakfast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	lunch	lunch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	finish	finish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	project	project	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
14	by	by	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	afternoon	afternoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
17	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
19	shaky	shaky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	parataxis	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
22	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	23	advmod	_	_
23	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	conj	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
28	off	off	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	bike	bike	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
31	on	on	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
34	home	home	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
35	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
36	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
37	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	advcl	_	_
38	faint	faint	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	xcomp	_	_
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **skip** | past | a girl in Glasgow | breakfast and lunch |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breakfast=Agent |
| 2 | **finish** | to-infinitive | a girl in Glasgow *not said here* | a project |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality project=Eventuality |
| 3 | **is** | past | girl |  |  |  | afternoon | shaky *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **think** *speech: other* | could | girl *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **fall off** | past | girl | girl's bike |  | the way |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient bike=Extent |
| 6 | **feel** | past | girl |  |  |  |  | faint *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |

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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:6`.

**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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