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title: It is not caused by eating sweets and you cannot catch it; with care… — A classmate with diabetes, and other long-term c… · tree and pragmatics
description: It is not caused by eating sweets and you cannot catch it; with careful carb counting a diabetic child can even eat the birthday cake. Who acts: you, careful carb. A sentence of the lesson «A classmate with diabetes, and other long-term conditions» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school wit
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# A classmate with diabetes, and other long-term conditions, sentence 2

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It is not caused by eating sweets and you cannot catch it; with careful carb counting a diabetic child can even eat the birthday cake.

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**Who acts:** you, careful carb · **What happens:** not cause, eat, not catch, count · **To what, where:** hormone, sweets, diabetic child, birthday cake

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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 (you, careful carb), 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:2
# text = It is not caused by eating sweets and you cannot catch it; with careful carb counting a diabetic child can even eat the birthday cake.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	caused	cause	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
6	eating	eat	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
7	sweets	sweet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
10	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
12	catch	catch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
15	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
16	careful	careful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	carb	carb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
18	counting	count	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	acl	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	diabetic	diabetic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
21	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
22	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	even	even	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	birthday	birthday	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	cake	cake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
28	.	.	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 | **not** **cause** | present · passive |  | hormone |  |  |  |  | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **eat** | gerund |  | sweets |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sweet=Patient |
| 3 | **not** **catch** | can | you | hormone |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 4 | **count** | gerund | careful carb *not said here* | a diabetic child |  |  |  |  | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Theme |
| 5 | **eat** | can | careful carb | the birthday cake |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cake=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:2`.

**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): R7-rel-agree ×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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