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title: Sports drinks are sugary and acidic, so sipping them slowly for hour… — Water, fizzy drinks and sports drinks · tree and pragmatics
description: Sports drinks are sugary and acidic, so sipping them slowly for hours bathes the teeth again and again and can cause decay. Who acts: Sports drinks, sipping. A sentence of the lesson «Water, fizzy drinks and sports drinks» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and 
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# Water, fizzy drinks and sports drinks, sentence 13

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Sports drinks are sugary and acidic, so sipping them slowly for hours bathes the teeth again and again and can cause decay.

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**Who acts:** Sports drinks, sipping · **What happens:** be, sip, bathe, cause · **To what, where:** drinks, teeth, decay

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Water, fizzy drinks and sports drinks» 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 (Sports drinks, sipping), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:medicine:051-water-fizzy-drinks-and-sports-drinks.lesson:13
# text = Sports drinks are sugary and acidic, so sipping them slowly for hours bathes the teeth again and again and can cause decay.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = medicine
# lesson = 051-water-fizzy-drinks-and-sports-drinks.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, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	Sports	sport	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	compound	_	_
2	drinks	drink	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	sugary	sugary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	acidic	acidic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	so	so	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	sipping	sip	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	csubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:advcl
10	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
14	bathes	bathe	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
17	again	again	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	again	again	ADV	RB	_	17	conj	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	cause	cause	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	_
23	decay	decay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=14:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Sports drinks |  |  |  |  | sugary *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | Sports drinks *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **sip** | gerund |  | drinks *= drink* |  |  | hour | slowly *property* | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
| 4 | **bathe** | present | sipping | the teeth |  |  | again |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme tooth=Destination |
| 5 | **cause** | can | sipping *not said here* | decay |  |  |  |  | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition decay=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:051-water-fizzy-drinks-and-sports-drinks.lesson:13`.

**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, R6-punct-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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