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title: Dehydration means losing too much water and salts; signs are a dry m… — Tummy bugs and tummy aches · tree and pragmatics
description: Dehydration means losing too much water and salts; signs are a dry mouth, dark or little wee, no tears, dizziness and tiredness. Who acts: Dehydration, signs. 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 pragma
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# Tummy bugs and tummy aches, sentence 7

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Dehydration means losing too much water and salts; signs are a dry mouth, dark or little wee, no tears, dizziness and tiredness.

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**Who acts:** Dehydration, signs · **What happens:** mean, lose, be · **To what, where:** much water, dry mouth

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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 (Dehydration, signs), 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:7
# text = Dehydration means losing too much water and salts; signs are a dry mouth, dark or little wee, no tears, dizziness and tiredness.
# 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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Dehydration	dehydration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	losing	lose	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:ccomp
4	too	too	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	salts	salt	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
10	signs	sign	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
11	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
17	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	wee	wee	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	conj	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	22	det	_	_
22	tears	tear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:appos
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	dizziness	dizziness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:conj
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	tiredness	tiredness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **mean** | present | Dehydration |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **lose** *not said to happen* | gerund | Dehydration *not said here* | much water and salts |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Eventuality |
| 3 | **is a** | present | signs | a dry mouth and no tears and dizziness and tiredness |  |  |  |  | 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:medicine:010-tummy-bugs-and-tummy-aches.lesson:7`.

**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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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