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title: ADHD is a difference in how the brain manages attention, activity an… — A classmate with diabetes, and other long-term c… · tree and pragmatics
description: ADHD is a difference in how the brain manages attention, activity and impulses (sudden urges), and it is not caused by bad parenting or sugar. Who acts: ADHD, brain, bad parenting. A sentence of the lesson «A classmate with diabetes, and other long-term conditions» of the medicine course of Mova's p
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# A classmate with diabetes, and other long-term conditions, sentence 16

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ADHD is a difference in how the brain manages attention, activity and impulses (sudden urges), and it is not caused by bad parenting or sugar.

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**Who acts:** ADHD, brain, bad parenting · **What happens:** be, manage, not cause · **To what, where:** difference, attention, brain

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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 (ADHD, brain, bad parenting), 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:16
# text = ADHD is a difference in how the brain manages attention, activity and impulses (sudden urges), and it is not caused by bad parenting or sugar.
# 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): R3-conj-first ×1
1	ADHD	adhd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	difference	difference	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
6	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	9	advmod	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	brain	brain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	manages	manage	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl	_	_
10	attention	attention	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	activity	activity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	impulses	impulse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=12:conj
15	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	17	punct	_	_
16	sudden	sudden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	urges	urge	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	_
18	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	17	punct	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux:pass	_	_
23	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	24	advmod	_	_
24	caused	cause	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
25	by	by	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	parenting	parenting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
28	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	sugar	sugar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	_
30	.	.	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 | **is a** | present | ADHD | a difference |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **manage** | present | the brain | attention and activity and impulses and sudden urges |  |  |  |  | vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attention=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **cause** | present · passive | bad parenting or sugar | brain |  |  |  |  | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition 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:016-a-classmate-with-diabetes-and-other-long-term-conditions.lesson:16`.

**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): R3-conj-first ×1. **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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