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title: Oral rehydration sachets mix salts and sugar in water so the gut abs… — Tummy bugs and tummy aches · tree and pragmatics
description: Oral rehydration sachets mix salts and sugar in water so the gut absorbs it well; fizzy drinks and fruit juice can make diarrhoea worse. Who acts: Oral rehydration sachets, gut, fizzy drinks. A sentence of the lesson «Tummy bugs and tummy aches» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school with i
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# Tummy bugs and tummy aches, sentence 8

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Oral rehydration sachets mix salts and sugar in water so the gut absorbs it well; fizzy drinks and fruit juice can make diarrhoea worse.

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**Who acts:** Oral rehydration sachets, gut, fizzy drinks · **What happens:** mix, absorb, make · **To what, where:** salts, water, diarrhoea

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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 (Oral rehydration sachets, gut, fizzy drinks), 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:8
# text = Oral rehydration sachets mix salts and sugar in water so the gut absorbs it well; fizzy drinks and fruit juice can make diarrhoea worse.
# 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	Oral	oral	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	rehydration	rehydration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	sachets	sachet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	mix	mix	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	salts	salt	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	sugar	sugar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
10	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	gut	gut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	absorbs	absorb	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	13	advmod	_	_
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
17	fizzy	fizzy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	drinks	drink	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	fruit	fruit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	juice	juice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
22	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
24	diarrhoea	diarrhoea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
25	worse	bad	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	23	xcomp	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **mix** | present | Oral rehydration sachets | salts and sugar |  | water |  |  | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent salt=Patient |
| 2 | **absorb** | present | the gut | water |  |  |  | well *property* | vn absorb-39.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Goal it=Theme |
| 3 | **make** | can | fizzy drinks and fruit juice | diarrhoea |  |  |  | bad *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material diarrhoea=Product |

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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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**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.

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