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title: Pale straw-coloured wee is a sign of drinking enough, and dark yello… — Sunshine, vitamin D and water · tree and pragmatics
description: Pale straw-coloured wee is a sign of drinking enough, and dark yellow wee is a sign the body needs more water; wee as clear as water every single time isn't the goal either. Who acts: Pale straw coloured wee, dark yellow wee, body, wee. A sentence of the lesson «Sunshine, vitamin D and water» of the
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# Sunshine, vitamin D and water, sentence 11

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Pale straw-coloured wee is a sign of drinking enough, and dark yellow wee is a sign the body needs more water; wee as clear as water every single time isn't the goal either.

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**Who acts:** Pale straw coloured wee, dark yellow wee, body, wee · **What happens:** be, drink, need, not be · **To what, where:** sign, more water, goal

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Sunshine, vitamin D and water» 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 (Pale straw coloured wee, dark yellow wee, body, wee), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:medicine:023-sunshine-vitamin-d-and-water.lesson:11
# text = Pale straw-coloured wee is a sign of drinking enough, and dark yellow wee is a sign the body needs more water; wee as clear as water every single time isn't the goal either.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = medicine
# lesson = 023-sunshine-vitamin-d-and-water.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	Pale	pale	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
2	straw	straw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	_
4	coloured	coloured	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	wee	wee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	sign	sign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
10	drinking	drink	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	nmod	_	_
11	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
14	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	wee	wee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	sign	sign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	needs	need	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	acl	_	_
23	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	24	amod	_	_
24	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
26	wee	wee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nsubj	_	_
27	as	as	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	clear	clear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	conj	_	_
29	as	as	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
31	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	33	det	_	_
32	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl:unmarked	_	_
34	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	37	cop	_	_
35	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	37	advmod	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	goal	goal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	parataxis	_	_
38	either	either	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	37	advmod	_	_
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | Pale straw coloured wee | a sign and a sign |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **drink** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | enough *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | present | dark yellow wee | a sign |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **need** | present | the body | more water |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot water=Theme |
| 5 | **not** **is a** | present | wee | the goal |  |  |  | either *property* | 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:023-sunshine-vitamin-d-and-water.lesson:11`.

**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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