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title: The old rule of waiting an hour after eating before swimming, or you… — Warming up, stitches and cramp · tree and pragmatics
description: The old rule of waiting an hour after eating before swimming, or you'll get cramp, has no good evidence behind it. Who acts: old rule, hour, you. A sentence of the lesson «Warming up, stitches and cramp» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# Warming up, stitches and cramp, sentence 17

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The old rule of waiting an hour after eating before swimming, or you'll get cramp, has no good evidence behind it.

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**Who acts:** old rule, hour, you · **What happens:** wait, eat, swim, get, have · **To what, where:** cramp, good evidence

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Warming up, stitches and cramp» 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 (old rule, hour, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:medicine:037-warming-up-stitches-and-cramp.lesson:17
# text = The old rule of waiting an hour after eating before swimming, or you'll get cramp, has no good evidence behind it.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = medicine
# lesson = 037-warming-up-stitches-and-cramp.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): R5-strong ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	rule	rule	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
5	waiting	wait	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	acl	_	_
6	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
9	eating	eat	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	acl	_	_
10	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
11	swimming	swim	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	'll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:conj
17	cramp	cramp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
19	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
20	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	22	det	_	_
21	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	evidence	evidence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
23	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nmod	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	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 | **wait** | gerund | the old rule *not said here* |  |  |  | hour |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **eat** | gerund | a hour *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **swim** | gerund | a hour *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **get** | future | you | cramp |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cramp=Stimulus |
| 5 | **have** | present | the old rule | no good evidence |  | Cramp |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent evidence=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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**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): R5-strong ×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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