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title: Worry and stress can cause real tummy aches because the brain and gu… — Tummy bugs and tummy aches · tree and pragmatics
description: Worry and stress can cause real tummy aches because the brain and gut are connected by nerves. Who acts: Worry, nerves. A sentence of the lesson «Tummy bugs and tummy aches» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Tummy bugs and tummy aches, sentence 10

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Worry and stress can cause real tummy aches because the brain and gut are connected by nerves.

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**Who acts:** Worry, nerves · **What happens:** cause, connect · **To what, where:** real tummy aches, brain

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Tummy bugs and tummy aches» of the medicine 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 (Worry, nerves), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:medicine:010-tummy-bugs-and-tummy-aches.lesson:10
# text = Worry and stress can cause real tummy aches because the brain and gut are connected by nerves.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = medicine
# lesson = 010-tummy-bugs-and-tummy-aches.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	Worry	worry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	stress	stress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
4	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	cause	cause	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	tummy	tummy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	aches	ache	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
9	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	brain	brain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	gut	gut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
14	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	connected	connect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	advcl	_	_
16	by	by	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	nerves	nerve	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **cause** | can | Worry and stress | real tummy aches |  |  |  |  | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition ache=Patient |
| 2 | **connect** | present · passive | nerves | the brain and gut |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient |

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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:medicine:010-tummy-bugs-and-tummy-aches.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): 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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