---
title: Your body runs on sugar from food, and a hormone (a chemical messeng… — A classmate with diabetes, and other long-term c… · tree and pragmatics
description: Your body runs on sugar from food, and a hormone (a chemical messenger in the blood) called insulin is the key that lets the sugar into your cells. Who acts: body, hormone, key. A sentence of the lesson «A classmate with diabetes, and other long-term conditions» of the medicine course of Mova's prim
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/16-a-classmate-with-diabetes-and-other-long-term-conditions/0/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Medicine](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/) / [A classmate with diabetes, and other l…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/16-a-classmate-with-diabetes-and-other-long-term-conditions/) / 0

# A classmate with diabetes, and other long-term conditions, sentence 0

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Your body runs on sugar from food, and a hormone (a chemical messenger in the blood) called insulin is the key that lets the sugar into your cells.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** body, hormone, key · **What happens:** run, call, be, let · **To what, where:** sugar, insulin, key, cells · **Speech:** someone speaks here

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of the lesson «A classmate with diabetes, and other long-term conditions» 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 (body, hormone, key), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:medicine:016-a-classmate-with-diabetes-and-other-long-term-conditions.lesson:0
# text = Your body runs on sugar from food, and a hormone (a chemical messenger in the blood) called insulin is the key that lets the sugar into your cells.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = medicine
# lesson = 016-a-classmate-with-diabetes-and-other-long-term-conditions.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	Your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	runs	run	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	sugar	sugar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	hormone	hormone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
12	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	15	punct	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	chemical	chemical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	messenger	messenger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
19	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	15	punct	_	_
20	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl	_	_
21	insulin	insulin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	xcomp	_	_
22	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	key	key	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
25	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj	_	_
26	lets	let	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	acl:relcl	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	sugar	sugar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	into	into	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	cells	cell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .note -->
No stored speech act for this sentence.

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run** | present | Your body |  |  | sugar |  | from food | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source PP.destination PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent on sugar=Trajectory from food=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **call** | participle | a hormone *not said here* | insulin |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | present | a hormone | the key |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **let** | present | the key | the sugar |  | your cells |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sugar=Theme |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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:016-a-classmate-with-diabetes-and-other-long-term-conditions.lesson:0`.

**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/).

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [Eczema and other skin troubles, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/15-eczema-and-other-skin-troubles/15/)
- next →: [A classmate with diabetes, and other l…, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/16-a-classmate-with-diabetes-and-other-long-term-conditions/2/)
- ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/16-a-classmate-with-diabetes-and-other-long-term-conditions/)

